Witticisms
I think Oscar Wilde is amazing with witticisms and they are so funny, even in modern day times. What do you think?
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Witticisms
Wild was the master of witticisms- I have #6 hanging in my classroom. So true!
-My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
-The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
-Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
-We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
-There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
-America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
-Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
-It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
-Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
-Who, being loved, is poor?
-I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
-My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.
-The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - The unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
-Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
-We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
-There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written.
-But what is the difference between literature and journalism? Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.
-America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
-Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
-It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
-Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.
-Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
-Who, being loved, is poor?
-I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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