"Popularity is the one insult I have..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
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“On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.”
“I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.”
“The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer.”
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“Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.”
“For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.”
“If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.”