“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”

“Like all good reputations... every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”

“To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”

“To be popular one must be a mediocrity.""Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.""It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.”

“Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.”

“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one’s tears.”

“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.”