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The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
Context: There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
Context: Puritans cannot destroy a beautiful thing, yet, by means of their extraordinary prurience, they can almost taint beauty for a moment. It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Context: It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
Lord Goring, Act II
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”
Source: The Happy Prince and Other Tales
“When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.”
Source: De Profundis
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.”
Variant: For one moment our lives met our souls touched.
“Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious”
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
Variant: Patriotism is the vice of nations.
“As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied”
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Context: Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your perfection is inside of you. If only you could realise that, you would not want to be rich. Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things, that may not be taken from you. And so, try to so shape your life that external things will not harm you. And try also to get rid of personal property. It involves sordid preoccupation, endless industry, continual wrong. Personal property hinders Individualism at every step.