"The job of the critic is to..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Only the shallow know themselves.”

“Marriage is a long, dull meal with dessert served at the beginning.”

“On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.”

“Clean your finger before you point at my spots.”

“Well, there's a lot to react against![in response to the accusation that she was a reactionary]”

“There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.”

“Beauty is as useful as the useful. More so, perhaps. (Le beau est aussi utile que l'utile. Plus peut-etre.)”

“The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.”

“My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.”