Quotes About Individuality

God made the world just as much for me as for any one else.

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

there are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely - or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.

What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know.

Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public are to him non-existent

One of the requisites of sanity is to disagree with the majority of the British public.

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is a man's original virtue.

Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. People people have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself.

Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood

My dear fellow, I am not quite serious. But I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.

There are as many Hamlets as there are melancholies.

It's beauty that captures your attention; personality that captures your heart..

A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless. They lack individuality.

we can't stand other people having the same faults as ourselves

I knew that I had come face to face with someone whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself.

No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

I should be sorry to be on the same level as an age like this.

The only artists I have ever known, who are personally delightful, are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfect uninteresting in what they are.

The arts that have escaped [uniformity] best are the arts in which the public take no interest. Poetry is an instance of what I mean. We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it.