Oscar Wilde Quotes, Mirrors Quotes, Rejection Quotes

The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

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The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

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No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide. I can quite understand how any ordinary critic would be strongly prejudiced against a work that was accompanied by a premature and unnecessary panegyric from the publisher. A publisher is simply a useful middle-man. It is not for him to anticipate the verdict of criticism.

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Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.

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What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

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The best revenge is to live well.

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There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.

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Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

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Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn't mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.

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Many of the great achievements of the world were accomplished by tired and discouraged men who kept on working.

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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.

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I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

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

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There are moments when art attains almost to the dignity of manual labor.

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Cleverness becomes a public nuisance.

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The best one can say of modern creative art is that it is just a little less vulgar than reality.

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Nature constantly imitates art.

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JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

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She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

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The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible.

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