The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling I have always cultivated.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
The only artists I have ever known, who are personally delightful, are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.
The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature.
The mark of all good art is not that the thing is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the tender, appealing vitality of the workman’s heart and head.
