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Oscar Wilde Quotes
«Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.»
«His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.»
«From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Literature
| Keywords:
drops, Kipling, point of view, reporter, vulgarity
«If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself you rise from the table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
dinner table, richer, sanctified
«Charity, dear Miss Prism, charity! None of us are perfect. I myself am peculiarly susceptible to draughts.»
«In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.»