Quote #55

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.

More from Oscar Wilde

  1. There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
  2. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
  3. All bad art is the result of good intentions.
  4. Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
  5. We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one adm…
  6. Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
  7. All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peri…
  8. When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them.

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