"Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber"
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"It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties."
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"Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all."
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"The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance."
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"Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification."
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"Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal."
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"I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters."
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"In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one."
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"The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated."
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"One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age."
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"Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments."
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"On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners."
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"Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things."
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"Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!"
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"Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne."
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"I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean."
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"By the artificial separation of soul and body men have invented a Realism that is vulgar and an Idealism that is void."
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"Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar."
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"You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost"
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"Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it."
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