Oscar Wilde ( 10 of 342 )
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly read more
Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of read more
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason.
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and read more
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadayssaying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
He hadn't a single redeeming vice.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would read more
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions read more
Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us.
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
On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.
