Quotes by Wilde, Oscar

One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anyth >>

He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera t >>

Talk to a woman as if you loved her, and to a man as if he bored you. >>

Quotations about Despotism

Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probab >>

The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual >>

Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, alway >>

There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.

Wilde, Oscar