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«Sins of the flesh are nothing. Sins of the soul are shameful.»
«Argument are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.»
«Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature it requires, in fact, that nature of a true Individualist to sympathize with a friend's success.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
individualist, individualists, sufferings, sympathize, sympathize with
«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 other gets no dinners.»
«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 absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.»
«You are young. No hungry generations tread you down.... The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost...»
«Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses once!»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
Frank Harris, Great Houses, Harris
«The mind of a the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.»
«You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done.»
«No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
accompanied, literary critic, literary criticism, literary work, panegyric, prejudiced, premature, publishes, The Verdict
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