If you are going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh or they will kill you.

When he takes the knife to the canvass the servants find him lying dead with a knife through is heart and "withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage." and the portrait "in all the wonders of his exquisite youth and beauty." p 349

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.

Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.