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" America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. "

" A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author. "

" A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. "

" The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. "

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

" All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. "

" 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. "

" There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better. "

" How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. "

" The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. "

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

" While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance. "

" 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. "

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

" If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. "

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

" It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. "

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

" When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her. "

" Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. "

" In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth. "

" 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. "

" The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. "

" There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. "

" 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. "

" Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. "

" Writing bores me so. "