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there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.
The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
“every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one,”
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
Women have no appreciation of good looks; at least, good women have not.
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
If one hears bad music, it is one’s duty to drown it in conversation.”
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
“It is only the sacred things that are worth touching,
