by Oscar Wilde

• Education is an admirable thing.  But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
• Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.
• The English are always degrading truths into facts.  When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
• It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
• In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public.  Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
• Most women are so artificial that they have no sense of Art.  Most men are so natural that they have no sense of Beauty.
• Friendship is far more tragic than love.  It lasts longer.
• What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art.  It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art.
• A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist.  It lacks imperfection.
• The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious.  The only thing that the public can see is the obvious.  The result is the Criticism of the Journalist.
• The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.  The only thing that can console one for being rich is economy.
• One should never listen.  To listen is a sign of indifference to one’s hearers.
• Even the disciple has his uses.  He stands behind one’s throne, and at the moment of one’s triumph whispers in one’s ear that, after all, one is immortal.
• Those whom the gods love grow young.