"The spirit of an age may be..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.”

“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual.”

“You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.”

“In part, art completes what nature cannot elaborate; and in part it imitates nature.”

“For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.”

“It's a certain kind of immortality, because those Disney films do go on and on and on.”

“The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.”

“I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism. It's so shortsighted. Most people are interested in their own personal comfort. I've said that about environmentalists. I think they care about bike paths and places to park their Volvos, not the planet as an abstraction.”

“Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox, whose philosopher is a juggler, and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking. Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpetings, and farewells him with hootings, only to welcome another ruler with trumpetings again. Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years and whose strong men are yet in the cradle. Pity the nation divided into fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.”