WILDE, OSCAR : A word in earnest is as good as a speech. (Charles Dickens, U.S. novelist, 1812-1870Protest: Barricades of ideas are worth more than barricades of stones. (Jose Marti, Cuban revolutionary and poet, 1853-1895Abuse: I and the public know. / What all schoolchildren learn. / Those to whom evil is done. / Do evil in return. (W.H. Auden, English-American poet, 1907-1973Self-Identity: Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : Every saint has a past and every sinner a future. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : Be yourself. Everyone else is taken. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : True friends stab you in the front. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : Women are made to be loved, not understood. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : Everyone should keep someone else’s diary. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do — the day after. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : It is the confession, not the priest that give us absolution. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to b faithless and cannot. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : The books that the world calls immoral books are books that show the world its own shame. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : To know everything about oneself one must know all about others. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)

WILDE, OSCAR : Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation. (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright, 1854-1900)