Quotes About Perception

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is non the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to?Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

I am not young enough to know everything.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.