As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Lord's Prayer is 66 words, the Gettysburg Address is 286 words, there are 1.322 words in the Declaration of Independence, but… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything. Except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesman-like habits,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
