"Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing".
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Forskjellen på journalistikk og litteratur er at journalistikken er uleselig, og litteraturen blir ikke lest".
—Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"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 is the curse of the drinking classes."
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"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)
“By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go".
—Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
“I am not young enough to know everything.”
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
“Life is far too important to be taken seriously.”
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
—Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable."
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing."
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Experience...is simply the name we give our mistakes."
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Society produces rogues, and education makes one rogue cleverer than another."
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between."
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"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 is the one insult I have never suffered."
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow."
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"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)
"Bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy".
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune."
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
“It’s a great advantage to have done nothing at all, but it’s best not to overdo it”
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about”
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
“To define is to limit.”
— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"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)