Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal.