-But beauty, real beauty ends where intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of the face.
-The Church, they don't think. A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen.
-There is a fatality about all physical and intellectual distinction, the sort of fatality that seems to dog through history the faltering steps of kings. It is best not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
-I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvellous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
-You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose.
- Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not one of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion.
- He never dreams of considering whether the idea is right or wrong. The only thing he considers of any importance is whether one believes it oneself. Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
- I like persons better than principles and I like persons better than anything else in the world.
- A dream of form in days of thought
- It is sad to think of but there is no doubt that Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts
for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.
- Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins,if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him. The aim of life is self development.To realize one's nature perfectly- that is what each of us is here for.
- People are afraid of themselves nowadays They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself. Of course they are charitable They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of all morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion- These are the two things that govern us.
- But the bravest men amongst us are afraid of themselves.
- Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
- Beauty is a form of Genius- is higher, indeed than Genius as it needs no explanation.
- People say sometimes that beauty is only superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not as superficial as Thought is. To me Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances The true mystery of the world is visible, not invisible.
- He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls us to yield.
- I adore simple pleasures, they are the last refuge of the complex.
- Fidelity. Even in love it is purely a question for physiology.
- Great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.
- I am told that pork-packing is the most lucrative profession in America, after politics.
- She behaves as if she is beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
- There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth.
- Punctuality is the thief of time.
- Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
- The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of their custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect- simply a confession of failure.
- Faithfulness The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid others would pick them up.
- People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.
- Was the soul a shadow seated in the house of sin?
- But there was not motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.
- It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves.
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