Quote #228

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between (also attributed to George Bernard Shaw and Georges Clemenceau).

More from Oscar Wilde

  1. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
  2. Bigamy is having a wife too many, monogamy is the same.
  3. A true friend stabs you in the front
  4. Buck up and be jolly, my dear lady! Stillbirth is a sign that God has a sense of humour!
  5. The only creative thought one can have in an institution is how to get out.
  6. My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
  7. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
  8. I am dying as I have lived: beyond my means.

All Oscar Wilde quotes