Daily quote |
Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde)Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing. Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied. As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. Biography lends to death a new terror. |