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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their...
On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle,...
Better the rule of One, whom all obey,
Than to let clamorous demagogues betray
Our freedom with the kiss of...
For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the...
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their...
The American father. . . is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his...
How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?
Source: The Ballad...
The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord...
The world is a stage, but the play's badly cast.
Source: Lord Arthur Savile's...
What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it.
Source: De Profundis,...
The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their...
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of...
In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.
There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
Where there is no exaggeration there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding. It is only...
Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there.
Source: The American...
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Source: The Picture of...
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
Source: Phrases and Philosophies for...
One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually...