"No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
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"I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one."
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"Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us."
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"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."
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"To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance."
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"I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance"
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"I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals."
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"I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose."
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"Cultivated leisure is the aim of man."
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"Charity creates a multitude of sins."
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"The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous."
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"London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy."
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"That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography."
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"Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them"
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"The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present."
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"Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it."
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"His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be"
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"There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People."
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"Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out."
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"Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women."
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