Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.
For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us.
The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.
When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville.