Quote #121
The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
More from Oscar Wilde
- Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
- It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
- What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
- In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
- I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are…
- Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
- Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.