Modern journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgares. I have only to do with literature.
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Citations by Oscar Wilde
The transformation of Dr Jekyll reads dangerously like an experiment out of the Lancet.
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Are there ideas to make books better? I'm afraid not.
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It must be perfectly easy in half an hour to say whether a book is worth anything or worth nothing. Ten minutes are really sufficient, if one has the instinct for form.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. That is all.
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The unfortunate aphorism proposed on Art as a Mirror of Nature is wantonely expressed by Hamlet to convince the listeners of their absolute madness over what concerns art.
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It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over.
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There is no fine art without self-consciousness, and self-consciousness and the critical spirit are one.
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Every single work of art is the fulfilment of a prophecy.
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