The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it

Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.

American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past.

I am Irish by race but the English have condemned me to talk the language of Shakespeare.

Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.