Quote #199
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
More from Oscar Wilde
- The fact is, that civilisation requires slaves. The Greeks were quite right there. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninte…
- Closed eyes listen, afraid to see on their own. Easily influenced and simply conformed.
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
- High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
- Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
- A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is alway…
- The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.