...art it is one's last mood. It is so easy to convert others. It is so difficult to convert oneself. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. Life cheats us with shadows, like a puppet-master. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us, with...

...CRITIC AS ARTIST. Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. •" ^ A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. See, it is dawn already. Draw back the curtains and open the windows wide. How cool the morning air...

...be bis fancy, at stränge new gods. (/«/. 185). The true critic will . . always be sincere in bis devotion to the principle of beauty, but he will seek...suffer himself to be limited to any settled custom of ihought, or stereotyped mode of looking at things. {Int. 190 — 191). To say of anyone that he is...

...do much to minimize the danger. 207 Mi C 311 I know each lane and every alley green | Wilde In 154 He will seek for beauty in every age and in each school | Macdonald Fk 243 they had to deal with each day's difficulties as they could, every new day bringing...

...THE CRITIC AS ARTIST Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. See, it is dawn already. Draw back the curtains and open the windows wide. How cool the morning air...

...pretend. I must be equally sincere. I " It was Paliser's turn. With a laugh he interrupted. "Don't. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it must be fatal. Besides I know it all by heart. I am the son of rich and disreputable people. That is...

...does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest of motives. The Picture of Dorian Gray. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. The Critic as Artist. » There is a fatality about good resolutions — they are always made too late....

...THE CRITIC AS ARTIST. Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. See, it is dawn already. Draw back the curtains and open the windows wide. How cool the morning air...

...in prose." Again, speaking, we may be sure, of himself, and out of himself, he had the grace to say, "A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal." Of course nobody believes that, or cares for it other than as a phrase. It was not meant to be believed;...

...related series of binaries. Some further examples of Wilde's subversion of subjective depth: A litrle sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. ('Critic', 393) All had poetry springs from genuine feeling. ('Critic', 398) In matrers of grave importance,...