Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.

Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

A true gentleman is one who is never intentionally rude.

Selfishness is not living your life as you wish to live it. Selfishness is wanting others to live their lives as you wish them to.