I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
From Oscar Wilde
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
It is always the unreadable that occurs.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.
I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of simple decorative arts. It would be a golden hour to the children.
'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.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
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