Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping.[The Canterville Ghost]
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one’s back that are absolutely and entirely true.
It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of Art.
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But on the other hand no one is more ready than I am to acknowledge that it is better to be good than to be ugly.
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
