Everything popular is wrong.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one...

Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one...

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no...

Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no...

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they...

People who love only once in their lives are. . . shallow people. What they...

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief

Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things...

Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things...

Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow.

Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is...

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is...

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his...

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his...

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to...

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to...

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just...

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just...

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with...

The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with...

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my...

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my...

A girl phoned me the other day and said ... Come on over, there's nobody...

A girl phoned me the other day and said ... Come on over, there's nobody...

Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow...

Every schoolmaster after the age of forty-nine, is inclined to flatulence is apt to swallow...

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

Genius may conceive but patient labor must consummate

The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are, Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and...

The values a man must cherish as his life-breath are, Truth, Righteousness, Peace, Love and...

Talent will out, my dears

Talent will out, my dears

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of...

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of...

My compositions deserve the medal, not me.

My compositions deserve the medal, not me.