Quotes by Wilde, Oscar

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. >>

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. >>

Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exq >>

Quotations about Property

Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, ri >>

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own. >>

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties ma >>

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land.

Wilde, Oscar