The Critic as Artist
Oscar Wilde
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
“There is no sin except stupidity.”
“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”
“Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable”
“Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.”
“It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.”
“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
“The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.”
“There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other - by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.”
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