Wilde

Famous quotes containing the word wilde:

“Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

“Personality must be accepted for what it is. You mustn’t mind that a poet is a drunk, rather that drunks are not always poets.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)