Oscar Wilde ( 10 of 342 )
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people
Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures
It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures
There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own read more
There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, read more
When I was young, I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
