A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

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

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.