Quote #37
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.
More from Oscar Wilde
- Oh! journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
- The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
- Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
- It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the…
- Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes his biography.
- As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
- Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
- There is no sin except stupidity.