Oscar Wilde Quotes
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. Everything popular is wrong. Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Hatred is blind, as well as love. He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being. How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive. I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. I am not young enough to know everything. I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. I can resist everything except temptation. I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
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