Quotes About Perspective

It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.

To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others

The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Literature always anticipates life. It doesn't copy it but moulds it to it's purpose.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.

I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.

You are a sceptic. Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith. What are you? To define is to limit.

We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.

Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself.

Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.

When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I'm old - I know it is!

I am completely penniless, and absolutely homeless. Yet there are worse things in the world than that.

I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.

My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live.

Death is a great price to pay for a red rose," cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all.  It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and to watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl.  Sweet is the scent of the hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill.  Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it.