The English Renaissance of Art https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wilde/oscar/english-renaissance-of-art/ (1882)
“Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.”
“Government! Three fourths parasitic and the other fourth Stupid fumbling.”
Source: Stranger in a Strange Land
“The public prosecutor … should be subject to regular examinations to attest to sanity.”
Calling for psychiatric examinations in regard to the life sentence of the Mafia-member Vittorio Mangano, whom Senator Marcello Dell'Utri, called a hero, as reported in 'Berlusconi: "Perizie per i pm" Dell'Utri: "Mangano un eroe" 'in la Repubblica (8 April 2008) http://www.repubblica.it/2008/04/sezioni/politica/verso-elezioni-18/berlusconi-toghe/berlusconi-toghe.html
2007
“Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.”
The Life of Pope http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/5101
Lives of the English Poets (1779–81)
“Delirium, dream, death—Three-D. What was the fourth?”
Source: Natural History (2003), Chapter 3 “Uluru” (p. 45)
“Conduct is three-fourths of our life and its largest concern.”
Source: Literature and Dogma (1873), Ch. 1
On Moore’s Life of Lord Byron (1830)
