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Oscar Wilde Quotes
«Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Family
| Keywords:
family life, fathers, proper
«Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
aged, Die in, exile, exiled, exiles, lumber, lumbering, lumbers, lumber room, middle-aged, mortgage, mortgaged, mortgages, mortgaging, The Exile, The Lord of, waiting room
«And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth.»
«In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.»
«Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.»
«The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Idleness,
Perfection,
Youth
| Keywords:
idleness
«He did not wear his scarlet coat, For blood and wine are red, And blood and wine were on his hands When they found him with the dead, The poor dead woman whom he loved, And murdered in her bed»
«To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist -- the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar.»