The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.
Oscar WildeSometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
Oscar WildeYou and I will always be friends." "Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that.
Oscar WildeThey did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
Oscar Wilde