The Critic as Artist Quotes

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

“Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

“Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

“It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

“The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

“The world is made by the singer for the dreamer.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

“What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

“I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

“There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other - by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist

“In literature mere egotism is delightful.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist