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Insulting Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a…
- It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.
- In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
- Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England…
- The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
- Life is too short to learn German
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- Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is… — Oscar Wilde