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" Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. "

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" Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. "

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" It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned. "

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

" No man is rich enough to buy back his past. "

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

" I can resist everything except temptation. "

" When good Americans die they go to Paris. "

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

" One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. "

" Those whom the gods love grow young. "

" The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. "

" A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. "

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

" A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. "

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

" '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. "

" 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. "

" I have nothing to declare except my genius. "

" Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. "

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

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

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

" Who, being loved, is poor? "

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

" All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. "

" She is a peacock in everything but beauty. "

" Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination. "

" Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. "

Oscar Wilde

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" There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. "