The proper school to learn art is not life but art
The best revenge is to live well.
Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men.
If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
Imagination is imitative-the real innovation lies in criticism.