The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Oscar Wilde in The Critic as Artist (1891)
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Gilbert: Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.

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It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Oscar Wilde in The Critic as Artist (1891)
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

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One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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