Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living…
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
Even you are not rich enough to buy back your past. No man is.[to Sir Robert Chiltern]
Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Do you really think that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to.[to Lord Arthur Goring]
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
