The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits, supplies their demands.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We...

Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We...

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner...

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner...

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Don't give a woman advice: one should never give a woman anything she can't wear...

Don't give a woman advice: one should never give a woman anything she can't wear...

And now, I am dying beyond my means.

And now, I am dying beyond my means.

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us

Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old...

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old...

An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is...

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is...

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It...

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It...

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is...

No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is...

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it...

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it...

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

Selfishness is not living as one wisheThe cynic knows the price of everything and the...

Selfishness is not living as one wisheThe cynic knows the price of everything and the...

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.