"No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist"
"Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty"
"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes"
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation"
"I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead"
"I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability"
"In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin"
"I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability"
"I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being"
"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works"
"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world"
"Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life"
"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months"
"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same"
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship"
"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular"
"As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied"
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known"
"Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing"
"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching"
"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future"
"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community"
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing"
"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much"
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go"
"Who, being loved, is poor?"
"While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance"
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong"
"In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever"
"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying"
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars"
"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals"
"Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance"
"The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves"
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it"
"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life"
"The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it"
"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius"
"There is no sin except stupidity"
"There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad"
"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love"
"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is"
"When good Americans die they go to Paris"
"What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying"
"There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about"
"There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else"
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life"
"Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to"
"The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic"
"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing"
