“Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.”
Oscar Wilde
“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”
“Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”
Voltaire
“I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum”
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
Benjamin Franklin