Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.
I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.