The world is dying of machinery; that is the great disease, that is the plague that will sweep away and destroy civilization; man will have to rise a… - George Moore

All reformers are bachelors.

One thing that cannot be denied to the realists: a constant and intense desire to write well, to write artistically. When I think of what they have done in the matter of the use of words, of the myriad verbal effects they have discovered, of the thousand forms of composition they have created, how they have remodelled and refashioned the language in their untiring striving for intensity of expression for the very osmazome of art, I am lost in ultimate wonder and admiration.

The lot of critics is to be remembered by what they failed to understand.