The English have really everything in common with the Americans, except, of course, language.       On the British race:
It represents the survival of the pushing.

(The picture of Dorian Gray)

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
(The Critic as Artist)
       I can resist everything but temptation.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
(The Critic as Artist)
       Writing about biography Wilde said:
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes his biography.
 
 

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