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Political Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.
- As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely…
- The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their…
- Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
- A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
- By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
- Everything popular is wrong.
- Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
- 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…
- Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
- In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
- One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
- The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
- Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
- To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.
- Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
- If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we…
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