Quote #132
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
More from Oscar Wilde
- Only the shallow know themselves.
- The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
- If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
- To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
- Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
- Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris. Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die…
- Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
- The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years.