My advice to those who think they have to take off their clothes to be a star is, once you?re boned, what?s left to create the illusion? Let ?em wonder. I never believed in givin? them too much of me.
Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.
A man is called selfish, not for pursuing his own good, but for neglecting the neighbor's.
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?
The future ... seems to me no unified dream but a mince pie, long in the baking, never quite done.
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.
O to be self balanced for contingencies! O to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs as trees and animals do!
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained.
Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes).
I celebrate myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
Unknown to her the rigid rule, The dull restraint, the chiding frown The weary torture of the school, The taming of wild nature down.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age, London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.
Show respect for age. Drink good scotch for a change. The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word. The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword!
Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
When a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.