“One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.”
“It is he who has broken the bond of marriage -- not I. I only break its bondage.”
“I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.”
“To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.”
“A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes.”
“The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.”
“He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone.”
“What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
“When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.”
“He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.”
“When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.”
“The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.”
“No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.”
“Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.”
“Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.”
“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”
“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
“In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.”
“Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments.”
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
“It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out.”
“There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.”
“Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.”
“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.”
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.”
“There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.”
“The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.”
“Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.”
“It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.”