About Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in...
More quotations from Oscar Wilde
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
More quotations tagged with “civilization”
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
The more rapidly a civilization progresses, the sooner it dies for another to rise in its place.
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Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles...respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law...or, in a word justice.