Love Quote by Thomas Mann

“and if it be true that the loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“I had hoped to be disliked by most, not by way of rebellion, but by way of excellence, disdain for the habitual, and the…

— Jamie Weise

“The public will hear of nothing but rogues; and the only way in which poor authors, who must live, can act honestly by the…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“The love, born of beauty was not mine; I had nothing in common with it: I could not dare to meddle with it, but…

— Charlotte Brontë

“When we recall the great influence which Spenser's poetry has exerted on English poets who have lived and written since his day, we can…

— Owen Barfield

“Almost every artistic nature is born with a revealing connoisseurial tendency that appreciates injustice so long as it results in beauty and applauds, even…

— Thomas Mann

“He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but no he saw…

— W. Somerset Maughamset Maugham

“the artist descends within himself, and in that lonely region of stress and strife, if he be deserving and fortunate, he finds the terms…

— Joseph Conrad

“To the Greeks this problem of the conditions of poetic production, and the places occupied by either spontaneity or self-consciousness in any artistic work,…

— Oscar Wilde

“And then he again uneasily saw, as he had latterly seen with more and more frequency, the scorn of Nature for man’s finer emotions,…

— Thomas Hardy

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions…

— Oscar Wilde

“that incongruity of common and elegant in which the habitually vulgar think they see the revelation of an eccentric existence, of the perturbations of…

— Gustave Flaubert