Preface Quotes

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until w...

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find...

The artist is the creator of beautiful things.    To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim....

Fortunate, most fortunate occurrence! — fortunate for the millions of his manacled brethren, yet pan...

we not only wish to be pleased, but to be pleased in that particularway in which we have been accust...

The critics greeted this book with a churlish and horrified outcry. Certain virtuous people, in news...