620 Quotations by Oscar Wilde
- 81. Chastity is the greatest form of perversion.
- 82. Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgi ...
- 83. Children have a natural antipathy to books - handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and g ...
- 84. Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man ca ...
- 85. Conscience and cowardice are really the same thing. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm.
- 86. Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
- 87. Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
- 88. Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.
- 89. Cultivated leisure is the aim of man.
- 90. Democracy is the bludgeoning of the people, by the people, for the people.
- 91. Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
- 92. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.
- 93. Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
- 94. Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through d ...
- 95. Divorces are made in heaven.
- 96. Do not speak ill of society, Algie. Only people who can't get in do that.
- 97. Do you really think, Arthur, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there ar ...
- 98. Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before ...
- 99. Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
- 100. Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides ...
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