It is through disobedience that
progress
has been
made--through disobedience and rebellion.
made--through disobedience and rebellion.
Oscar Wilde - Poetry
When one is in the country one
amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the
unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic.
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a
real friendship. It starts in the right manner.
The truths of metaphysics are the truths of masks.
Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no
future before it in this world.
The happy people of the world have their value, but only the negative
value of foils. They throw up and emphasise the beauty and the
fascination of the unhappy.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one
wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst--the last
is a real tragedy.
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 rebellion.
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes
life too full of terrors.
Comfort is the only thing our civilisation can give us.
Politics are my only pleasure. You see nowadays it is not fashionable to
flirt till one is forty or to be romantic till one is forty-five, so we
poor women who are under thirty, or say we are, have nothing open to us
but politics or philanthropy. And philanthropy seems to me to have
become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their
fellow-creatures. I prefer politics. I think they are more . . . becoming.
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be
judged.
In a very ugly and sensible age the arts borrow, not from life, but from
each other.
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is
fatal.
amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the
unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic.
An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a
real friendship. It starts in the right manner.
The truths of metaphysics are the truths of masks.
Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no
future before it in this world.
The happy people of the world have their value, but only the negative
value of foils. They throw up and emphasise the beauty and the
fascination of the unhappy.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one
wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst--the last
is a real tragedy.
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 rebellion.
It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes
life too full of terrors.
Comfort is the only thing our civilisation can give us.
Politics are my only pleasure. You see nowadays it is not fashionable to
flirt till one is forty or to be romantic till one is forty-five, so we
poor women who are under thirty, or say we are, have nothing open to us
but politics or philanthropy. And philanthropy seems to me to have
become simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their
fellow-creatures. I prefer politics. I think they are more . . . becoming.
One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be
judged.
In a very ugly and sensible age the arts borrow, not from life, but from
each other.
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is
fatal.
