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

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" In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Venetian glass. The channels by which all noble and imaginative work in painting should touch the soul are not those of the truths of lives. "

" Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. "

" Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. "

" If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame. "

" I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children. "

" The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. "

" Charity creates a multitude of sins. "

" Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. "

" Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one. "

" Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire. "

" Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. "

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" Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. "

" The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. "

" How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. "

" Writing bores me so. "

" Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. "

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

" Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. "

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

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

" She is a peacock in everything but beauty. "

" I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. "

" The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. "

" If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. "

" I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. "

" Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. "

" There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. "