I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Tag: The Picture of Dorian Gray
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
All art is quite useless.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril.
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.