Oscar Wilde on Journalism

"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." -- Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde on Experience

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." -- Oscar Wilde

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The Final Mystery

"The final mystery is oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?" -- Oscar Wilde

"It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is fatal." -- Oscar Wilde, found on HowStuffWorks - Learn how Everything Works!: "Quote of the Day

"Men always want to be a woman's first love -- Women like to be a man's last romance." -- Oscar Wilde, via email from Carla

Music | "If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation." -- Oscar Wilde

"When people agree with me, I always feel that I must be wrong." -- Oscar Wilde, via Liquid Courage

"In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." -- Oscar Wilde

"What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing." -- Oscar Wilde

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train." -- Oscar Wilde

Writing | "The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable." -- Oscar Wilde

"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." -- Oscar Wilde

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror." -- Oscar Wilde

"I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves." -- Oscar Wilde

"I like talking to a brick wall, it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me." -- Oscar Wilde

"When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers." -- Oscar Wilde

"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow." -- Oscar Wilde

"Only the shallow know themselves." -- Oscar Wilde

"Life is too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it." -- Oscar Wilde

"A gentleman is never unintentionally rude." -- Oscar Wilde