Sunday, November 25, 2007

When all things fail, there’s still Oscar

Some Oscar Wilde quotes I find mildly amusing:

  • A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
  • A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
  • A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
  • America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
  • Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
  • All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
  • As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
  • By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
  • Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
  • Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
  • Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
  • Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
  • I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
  • I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
  • I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
  • I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
  • I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
  • I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
  • I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
  • I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
  • It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
  • Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
  • Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
  • Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
  • Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
  • Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
  • Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

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