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Oscar Wilde Quotes
«An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
acquaintance, begins, complement, complemented, complements, develop, friendship, real, sure
«Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
patriotism, vicious, virtue
«Where there is no extravagance there is no love, and where there is no love there is no understanding.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
extravagance, extravagances, There is no, understanding, understandings, where
«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.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
age of, age of the, career, educated, forces, industrious, necessity, overwork, overworked, prejudice, professions, sides, The Age, The Under
«How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.»
«The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.»
«Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
community, failings, favor, journalism, notwithstanding, uneducated
«The best way to make children good is to make them happy»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
All My Children, best, children, good, happy, make, make happy, Them, The Best, way