Oscar Wilde

Price value

"Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing".

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

journalistikk vs. litteratur

"Forskjellen på journalistikk og litteratur er at journalistikken er uleselig, og litteraturen blir ikke lest".

—Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

uopplyste mennesker

"Det kan sies mye pent om den moderne journalistikk. Ved å fortelle oss hva uopplyste mennesker mener, holder den oss orientert om uvitenheten i samfunnet."

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

work curse drinking class

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Undervisning

"Undervisning er en beundringsverdig ting, men det er klokt fra tid til annen å huske at det ikke kan undervises i det som er verdt å vite".

—Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

journalism - ignorance of the community

“By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”

—Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Idea not dangerous

"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

happiness

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go".

—Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

young know

“I am not young enough to know everything.”

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

life important seriously

“Life is far too important to be taken seriously.”

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

scandal gossip morality

"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."

—Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

foxhunting unspeakable uneatable

"About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable."

– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

experience get nothing

"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

experience mistake

"Experience...is simply the name we give our mistakes."

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

society education rogue clever

"Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another."

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

america barbarism decadence civilization

"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

war wicked fascination vulgar popular

"As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

popularity insult suffer

"Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered."

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

teach remember grow

"We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow."

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

education know teach

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Oscar Wilde Bureaucracy

"Bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy".

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

private information source fortune

"Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune."

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

advantage nothing overdo

“It’s a great advantage to have done nothing at all, but it’s best not to overdo it”

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

world worse talked about

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about”

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

man think himself at all

"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

define limit definition

“To define is to limit.”

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

glass half-full optimist pessimist engineer size

"An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be."

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)