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Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel...
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are...
No, Ernest, don't talk about action. It is the last resource of those who know not how to...
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount...
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical...
The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
Source: Gwendolen, in...
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but...
I seem to have heard that observation before. . . . It has all the vitality of error and all the tediousness of an old...
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the...
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can...
Men of thought should have nothing to do with action.
Source: In Webster's...
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as Artist,...
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
Source: Gilbert, in The Critic as...
Formerly we used to canonise our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarise them. Cheap editions of great books may...
A damsel is a genius in the daytime and a beauty at night.
Source: In Webster's...
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a...
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and...
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become...
It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had...