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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at...
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless...
There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is...
The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade...
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
Source:...
A sentimentalist, my dear Darlington, is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market...
Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
All costumes are caricatures. The basis of Art is not the Fancy Ball.
Source: The...
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor...
The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for 300 years.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
Source: Comment, 3 Jan 1882, at the New...
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community...
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism,...
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life.
Health - silliest word in our language, and one knows well the popular idea of health the English country gentleman...
Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
Source: Dorian Gray, in The Picture of Dorian...
Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism, in...
If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we...
MRS ALLONBY. They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.
LADY HUNSTANTON. Indeed? And...