Quotes about Identity

There is something in that name that seems to inspire absolute confidence. I pity any poor woman whose husband is not called Ernest.

We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography.

People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets; and all my poets look exactly like pianists.

A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be.  That is his punishment.  Those who want a mask have to wear it.

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. 

The whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.

You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can't you?" He shook his head. "To-night she is Imogen," he answered, "and to-morrow night she will be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never." "I congratulate you.

I wish I could love," cried Dorian Gray with a deep note of pathos in his voice. "But I seem to have lost the passion and forgotten the desire. I am too much concentrated on myself. My own personality has become a burden to me.

I am a woman. Every artist is a woman and should have a taste for other women. Artists who are homosexual cannot be true artists because they like men, and since they themselves are women they are reverting to normality.

I do not evolve, I AM.

But by the time we're in our thirties, I believe we should strive to own and respect who we are, regardless of our struggles and difficulties. After all, even every little and big mistake, like every scar, can be a lesson in humility—one of the greatest gifts of all.

Use what language you will,' said Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'you can never say anything but what you are.