A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without... - Oscar Wilde

"There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope."

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

"Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."

"The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart."