Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

Yes, I am a thorough republican. No other form of government is so favorable to the growth of art. ...because of the importance it places on the individual, their liberty, self-expression, creativity, and personal responsibility.

If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.