...c' est la societe qui s'est fait de I' art une idole !"—And from the preface to Dorian Grey:—" There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written, thai Is all. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything." Here are the two extreme...

...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...

...personally dislike. — Phrases and Philosophies for the use of the Young; also, An Ideal Husband. There is no such 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...

...hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. l 2 THE WRITINGS OF OSCAR WILDE. 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. 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. "It...

...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....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 sympathies....

...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...

...Whistler did also; and 3 Wilde, a little later than they, remarked: " All art is quite useless," and " There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book....Books are well written or badly written. That is all." With this doctrine of art for art's sake we are now dissatisfied. We object to it, not for the sake...

...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...

...one-time disciple, Wilde, declared: "They are the elect 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." Perverse and crochety as Ruskin's judgments often are, the moral standard is always the final court...