If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.

I was very much disappointed in the Atlantic Ocean.

There is nothing that art cannot express.

I have nothing to declare except my genuis.

In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them.

To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.