It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But. it is better to be good than to be ugly.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.
What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.