Wednesday 22 February 2012

Oscar Wilde Quotes II

  1. All great ideas are dangerous.
  2. The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.
  3. All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
  4. There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
  5. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
  6. The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
  7. The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analysed, women ... merely adored.
  8. A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
  9. A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.
  10. 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.
  11. The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

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