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" Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. "

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" No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all. "

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

" Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. "

" The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. "

" The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius. "

" I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. "

" In married life three is company and two none. "

" The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. "

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

" A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. "

" As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. "

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

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

" Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. "

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

" In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. "

" Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly. "

" 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. "

" Only the shallow know themselves. "

" Women are made to be loved, not understood. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything. "

" There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. "