America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself.
Oscar WildeTags: america oscar-wilde
She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.
Oscar WildeTags: insults oscar-wilde
Hearts Live By Being Wounded
Oscar WildeTags: love heart wound oscar-wilde
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar WildeTags: humour genius oscar-wilde
It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world
Oscar WildeTags: oscar-wilde the-picture-of-doran-gray
Oscar Wilde: "I wish I had said that." Whistler: "You will, Oscar; you will.
James McNeill WhistlerTags: humor oscar-wilde riposte
It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.
Oscar WildeTags: humor truth oscar-wilde a-woman-of-no-importance
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Oscar WildeTags: inspirational oscar-wilde
Oscar Wilde said that sunsets were not valued because we could not pay for sunsets. But Oscar Wilde was wrong; we can pay for sunsets. We can pay for them by not being Oscar Wilde.
G.K. ChestertonTags: oscar-wilde sunsets orthodoxy
[On Oscar Wilde:]
"If, with the literate, I am
Impelled to try an epigram,
I never seek to take the credit;
We all assume that Oscar said it.
[Life Magazine, June 2, 1927]
Tags: humor wit tribute oscar-wilde epigrams credit
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