Quotes About Culture

I have simply worshipped pianists - two at a time, sometimes, Harry tells me. I don't know what it is about them. Perhaps it is that they are foreigners. They all are, ain't they? Even those that are born in England become foreigners after a time, don't they? It is so clever of them, and such a compliment to art.

You are unjust to women in England. And till you count what is a a shame in a woman to be an infamy in a man, you will always be unjust, and Right, that pillar of fire, and Wrong, that pillar of cloud, will be made dim to your eyes, or be not seen at all, or if seen, not regarded.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public.  Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

The St. James's

there is about sorrow an intense, an extraordinary reality. I have said of myself that I was one who stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age. There is not a single wretched man in this wretched place along with me who does not stand in symbolic relation to the very secret of life. For the secret of life is suffering. It is what is hidden behind everything.

Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

It is a very ungentlemanly thing to read a private cigarette case. Algernon.  Oh! it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't.  More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read. Jack.  I am quite aware of the fact, and I don't propose to discuss modern culture.  It isn't the sort of thing one should talk of in private. 

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.

Bugünlerde herkes her ÅŸeyin fiyat?n? biliyor, fakat hiçbir ÅŸeyin deÄŸerini bilmiyorlar.

We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. 

Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs.

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices." "The

My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

The books that the world calls immoral books are books that show the world its own shame.

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime".

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

The whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. With

we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities;

Todo delito es vulgar, de la misma manera que todo lo vulgar es delito.

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch of the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry languidly.