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

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" A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. "

" It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. "

" The spirit of an age may be best expressed in the abstract ideal arts, for the spirit itself is abstract and ideal. "

" Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement. "

" A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction. "

" Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all, you must not strip it of vitality. "

" In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience. "

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

" In designing the scenery and costumes for any of Shakespeare's plays, the first thing the artist has to settle is the best date for the drama. This should be determined by the general spirit of the play more than by any actual historical references which may occur in it. "

" Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds. "

" If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk. "

" No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. "

" The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart. "

" Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. "

" Hatred is blind, as well as love. "

" When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. "

" Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both. "

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

" There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. "

" A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally. "

" There is no sin except stupidity. "

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

" Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. "

" Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more. "

" The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. "

" I am not young enough to know everything. "

" I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. "

" I can resist everything except temptation. "

" The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic. "