Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.


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That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating t...
OSCAR WILDE
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beau...
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I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across ... Please do not shoot t...
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I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.
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Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your...
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Hatred is blind, as well as love.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go
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It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then mere...
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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and lit...
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Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteent...
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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter enti...
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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of...
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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.
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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that...
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And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is ...
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It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it
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Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem ne...
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's ow...
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is...
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Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes
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Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is...
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The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of ...
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And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness...
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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive t...
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