We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

War can so easily be gilt with romance and heroism and solemn national duty and patriotism and the like by persons whose superficial literary and oratorical talent covers an abyss of Godforsaken folly.

You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.