Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

A dream is not what you see when you sleep. It is what keeps you from falling asleep.

She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.

It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.

The angels don't take offense if we keep asking over and over again.

We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.

It is our duty to concentrate all our influence to make popular that which is sound and good, and unpopular that which is unsound.

There are people whose faces assume an unaccustomed beauty and majesty the moment they cease to look out of their eyes.

Im so not into being emaciated.

To him who is stinted of food a boiled turnip will relish like a roast fowl.

I'm pretty good at seeing like a lot of different things happening at once and putting them in a pattern and figuring out how you can rearrange it so it might have a better outcome.