Oscar Wilde Quotes, Education Quotes, Ignorance Quotes

I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.

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Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

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The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

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The only sin is stupidity.

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The British cook, for her iniquities, is a foolish woman who should be turned into a pillar of salt which she never knows how to use.

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To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.

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I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

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It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

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The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

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I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her.

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I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

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We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.

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Nature is a wet place where large numbers of ducks fly overhead uncooked.

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To look at a thing is very different from seeing it.

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By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.

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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.

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History is a lie commonly agreed upon.

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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

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The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

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I expect I shall have to die beyond my means.

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