Oscar Wilde: “I wish I had said that.” Whistler: “You will, Oscar; you will.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.

Only the shallow know themselves.

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.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.