A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am?
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Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one ...
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Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.That is exactly what things were originally made for.
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Yet one had ancestors in literature as well as in one’s own race, nearer perhaps in type and temperament, many of them, and certainly with an influenc...
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The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.The critic is he who can translate into another ma...
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I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.
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Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.
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I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.The nineteenth century dislike of realism ...
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread.
