Irish - Dramatist | October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Oscar Wilde
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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.
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Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
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Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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