...to "Dorian Gray"' Mr. Oscar Wilde gives some remarkable gnomical utterances. Here are one or two : "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book....are well written, or badly written. That is all." "No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of...

...cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elett to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book....Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. xiii The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass....

...Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written—that is all. Marriage is a sort of forcing house. It brings strange sins to fruit, and sometimes...

...dislike. — Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the Young; also, An Ideal Husband. There is no sach thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all. — The Preface to "The Picture of Dorian Gray." " It is in working within limits that the master reveals...

...cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. ., There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book....Books are well written or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The...

...hebben; een goed boek, dat men zou wenschen geschreven te hebben. There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all. De toekomst is een boek vol onbeschreven bladen. Hoe ze zullen ingevuld worden hangt voor een goed...

...cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book....Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical...

...cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book....Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The...

...cultivated. For these there is hope. 877 They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book....Books are well written or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The...

...of art is reversed. " They are the elect," he declared, " to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book....are well written, or badly written. That is all." Wilde, like James M'Neill Whistler in another field, attempted to insulate art from the multifarious...