Quotes about Perspective

You know I am not a champion of marriage. The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colourless.

What does money matter? Love is more than money.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

Gwendolen.  How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes!  Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us.

He was dreadfully short-sighted, and there was no pleasure in taking a husband who never sees anything.

Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

Humanity takes itself too seriously.

We don't grow older we grow riper.

The fact that for a long time Cubism has not been understood and that even today there are people who cannot see anything in it means nothing. I do not read English, an English book is a blank book to me. This does not mean that the English language does not exist. Why should I blame anyone but myself if I cannot understand what I know nothing about? -Pablo Picasso.

You can't change your past, but you can change your mind about your past.

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.