Art and Culture
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.3.8 · 48 votes · 62 reads
Virtues
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.3.3 · 28 votes · 19 reads
Art and Culture
The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.3.3 · 13 votes · 2 reads
Art and Culture
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.4.4 · 29 votes · 109 reads
Art and Culture
The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach.4.2 · 21 votes · 94 reads
Art and Culture
The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.4.1 · 27 votes · 156 reads
Society
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.3.0 · 34 votes · 11 reads
Nature
The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.3.4 · 54 votes · 154 reads
Thought and Reason
The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything.4.8 · 63 votes · 158 reads
Virtues
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.3.0 · 48 votes · 194 reads
Thought and Reason
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.4.0 · 15 votes · 102 reads
Virtues
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.4.5 · 40 votes · 187 reads
Various
The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.3.4 · 31 votes · 62 reads
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