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.

If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty

I find I have, and a heart doesn’t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn’t go with modern dress. It makes one look old.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

Then there was a man who said, 'I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; by then it was too late'

Biography lends to death a new terror.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity.