855 ordspråk av Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde föddes den October 16th 1854 och dog den 30 November 1900 - Irish writer
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 The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. |
| The value of an idea has nothing to do with the success of the man who expresses it |
| The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. |
| The vilest deeds like poison-weeds- Bloom well in prison-air: It is only what is good in Man - That wastes and withers there: Pale Anguish keeps the heavy gate - And the Warden is Despair |
| The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. |
| The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them. |
| The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. |
| The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence. |
| The world has been made by fools that men should live in it |
| The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. |
| The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. |
| The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable. |
| The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork - Oscar Wilde |
| The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts. |
| The worst form of tyranny the world has ever known the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts. |
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