855 ordspråk av Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde föddes den October 16th 1854 och dog den 30 November 1900 - Irish writer
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 In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever

 In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

 In America, life is one long expectoration

 In America, the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience

 In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

 In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust.

 In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.

 In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization.

 In married life three is company and two none.

 In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.

 In old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.

 In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

 In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself.

 In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

 In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.


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