Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all.
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden." "But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!" "I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing." "That may be, but the muffins are the same!
Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws.
George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.