“What humbugs we are who pretend to live for Beauty and never see the Dawn!”

“How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?”

“The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.”

“We need two kinds of acquaintances, one to complain to, while to the others we boast.”

“What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?”

“If you want to be thought a liar, always tell the truth.”

“Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.”

“What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.”

“Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.”

“What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.”

“The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.”