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There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only.

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The only way to atone for being occasionally overdressed is to be massively overeducated.

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With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

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The ages live in history through their anachronisms.

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Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

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Fashion rests upon folly. Art rests upon law. Fashion is ephemeral. Art is eternal. Indeed what is a fashion really? A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so absolutely unbearable that we have to alter it every six months! It is quite clear that were it beautiful and rational we would not alter anything that combined those two rare qualities. And wherever dress has been so, it has remained unchanged in law and principle for many hundred years.

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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

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George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in.

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The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life.

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The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.

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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

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Bad manners make a journalist.

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It is always the unreadable that occurs.

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Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures.

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I can resist everything except temptation.

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The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous.

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Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

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The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

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