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" Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. "

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" Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm. "

" Only the shallow know themselves. "

" A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. "

" I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist. "

" Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. "

" Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. "

" Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. "

" The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates. "

" In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane. "

" Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable. "

" One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. "

" It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. "

" 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure. "

" There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. "

" This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last. "

" Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable. "

" I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy. "

" If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized. "

" There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. "

" The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. "

" True friends stab you in the front. "

" I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. "

" Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. "

" All art is quite useless. "

" There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all. "

" Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. "

" Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. "

" America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. "

" Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. "