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- Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or…
- The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.
- Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers…
- As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.
- Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a…
- Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life…
- In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
- Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England…
- Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
- From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is…
- Any place that we love becomes our world.
- Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at.
- The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.
- The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead…
- 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.…
- A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should…
- Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair to admit that…
- The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete…
- A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
- I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
- What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
- She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
- To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any…
- Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.
- Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through…
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