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Letter "O" » Oscar Wilde Quotes
«As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.»
«I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property»
«I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance»
«In America, the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
America and Americans,
Experience
| Keywords:
benefit, inexperience, In America
«Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.»
«The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also»
«To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still»
«On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.»
«It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime.»
«As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.»
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