Quotes by Wilde, Oscar

Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that tal >>

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, s >>

How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is wo >>

Quotations about Journalism and Journalists

I am a journalist and, under the modern journalist's code of Olympian >>

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a dista >>

Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cann >>

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.

Wilde, Oscar