1891

To name an object is to take away three-fourths of the pleasure given by a poem. This pleasure consists in guessing little by little to suggest it, that is the ideal.

Intentions · 1891

★ 5.4

Stephane Mallarme

1891

★ 5.1

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

We do not seek for truth in the abstract... Every man sees what he looks for, and hears what he listens for, and nothing else.

Intentions · 1891

★ 4.5

Letter

George Bernard Shaw

1891

★ 4.5

Considering his position he became wonderfully free from the chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent Power.

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D'Urbervilles · 1891

★ 4.4

Short story · Magazine · Detective fiction

You see, but you do not observe.

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Scandal in Bohemia · 1891

★ 4.0

Short story · Magazine · Detective fiction

It is quite a three-pipe problem, and I beg that you won't speak to me for fifty minutes.

Arthur Conan Doyle

The Red-Headed League · 1891

★ 3.9

Letter

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.

Helen Keller

1891

★ 3.8

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 3.8

It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves.

Intentions · 1891

★ 3.8

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

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1891

★ 3.8

Short story · Magazine · Detective fiction

Arthur Conan Doyle

A Case of Identity · 1891

★ 3.7

Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 3.7

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of Art.

Intentions · 1891

★ 3.7

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Intentions · 1891

★ 3.7

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Dies, all dies! The grass it dies, but in vernal rain Up it springs and it lives again; Over and over, again and again It lives, it dies and it lives again.

Intentions · 1891

★ 3.7

Poem

Herman Melville

Works · 1891

★ 3.5

The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic, the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.

Theodore Roosevelt

1891

★ 2.9

Up to and including 1880 the country had a frontier of settlement, but at present the unsettled area has been so broken into by isolated bodies of settlement that there can hardly be said to be a frontier line. In the discussion of its extent, its westward movement, etc., it can not, therefore, any longer have a place in the census reports.

Robert P. Porter

1891

★ 2.6

Starvation, and not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 2.1

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Intentions · 1891

★ 2.1

Short story

What should they know of England who only England know?

1891

★ 2.1

Poem

Rudyard Kipling

1891

★ 2.1

The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 2.0

Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 2.0

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature...to sympathise with a friend's success.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 2.0

Essay · Magazine

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 2.0

It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realize our perfection; through Art, and through Art only, that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.

1891

★ 1.9

One has a right to judge of a man by the effect he has over his friends.

The Picture of Dorian Gray · 1891

★ 1.3

A novel is an impression, not an argument.

Thomas Hardy

Tess of the D'Urbervilles · 1891

★ 1.3

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications.

Fortnightly Review · 1891

★ 1.2

Short story