Genius is the talent of a person who is dead.

If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.

A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.

Debauchery is perhaps an act of despair in the face of infinity.

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin.

People don't like the true and simple; they like fairy tales and humbug.

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present.

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

There are only two great currents in the history of mankind: the baseness which makes conservatives and the envy which makes revolutionaries.

Love and honesty don’t mix.

Not knowing when the dawn will comeI open every door.

O what we ben! And what we come to!

My sister, singer Jessie Ware, and I are always exchanging music. We brainstormed her wedding playlist for months.

Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.

A conscious lifetime... is a treasure beyond value.

Blindness separates people from things; deafness separates people from people.

I am looking forward to a series of productive meetings in both Austria and Estonia, particularly what role organized crime plays in the Baltic drug trade.

Being from a minority culture, I realised the importance of looking at non-Western cultures in a positive way.

There's always an adjective before my name, and it's never a nice one.