From Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Irish poet and playwright, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Selected Critical Prose (1891):
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing
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From Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Irish poet and playwright:
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
He Said That? 4/2/18
From Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish poet and playwright:
You can never be overdressed or overeducated
He Said That? 9/28/17
From Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish essayist, novelist, playwright and poet, The Critic as Artist (1889):
Puritans cannot destroy a beautiful thing, yet, by means of their extraordinary prurience, they can almost taint beauty for a moment. It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
He Said That? 9/28/16
From Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Irish essayist, novelist, playwright and poet, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, (1895):
All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
He Said That? 6/30/16
From Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Irish essayist, novelist, playwright and poet, The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (1889):
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
He Said That? 5/7/16
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish essayist, novelist, playwright and poet, Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man:
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
