Goncourt/career

Famous quotes containing the words goncourt and/or career:

“Sickness sensitizes man for observation, like a photographic plate.”
—Edmond De Goncourt (1822–1896)

“Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)