Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct ab...out when to die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them? They seem, as a class, to have absolute...ly no sense of moral responsibility.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilised being th...an the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and rando...m writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing o...f victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »