All great ideas are dangerous.
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Absinthe: After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see them as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
