Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist, 1891

Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

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

But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.