Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.
No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out.
An egg is always an adventure; the next one may be different.