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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose.
More than half modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
Everyone who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
I am not young enough to know everything.
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.