Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

A true friend stabs you in the front.

A true friend stabs you in the front.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable...

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable...

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a...

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a...

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run...

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run...

Only the shallow know themselves.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Nature is always behind the age

Nature is always behind the age

My wife and I no longer have anything in common but our differences.

My wife and I no longer have anything in common but our differences.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far...

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far...

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

I have nothing to declare but my genius.

I have nothing to declare but my genius.

You are beautiful when you are happy.

You are beautiful when you are happy.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to...

There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to...

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people...

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. [For] to a degree, people...