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Oscar Wilde Quotes
«Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
History,
Obedience
| Keywords:
disobedience, has-been, history, original, originals, progress, rebellion, Rebellions, the rebellion, virtue
«Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
account, bank, checking account, checks, draw, no-account, resolutions
«The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Advice,
Goodness
| Keywords:
advice, All Things Must Pass, in passing, I Pass, oneself, pass, passes out, pass out, use
«It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.»
«Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.»
«How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
cigarettes, demoralize, demoralized, demoralizing, expensive, marriage, ruining, ruins
«The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
a great deal, charging, great deal, salesman, salesmen, selling