As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself.
You can fake intelligence, but you can't fake wit.
It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting
The only real people are the people who never existed.
You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
It is a much cleverer thing to talk nonsense than to listen to it.