There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar WildeBy giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Oscar WildeI suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
Oscar WildeThere is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.
Oscar Wilde