Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image.

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

Irony is wasted on the stupid

There is no such thing as a heterosexual male, only men who haven't met Oscar Wilde yet.

It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes.