Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
A kiss may ruin a human life
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.
I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.
I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth.