“What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.”

“All art is quite useless.”

“I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.”

“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.”

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”

“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

“It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.”

“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”

“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”

“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”

“This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”

“Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”

“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life now that I am old I know that it is.”

“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”

“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”

“In married life three is company and two none.”

“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

“I put all my genius into my life I put only my talent into my works.”

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”

“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

“The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.”

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”

“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”

“In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.”

“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”

“A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.”

“The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.”

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”