Quote by Oscar Wilde

“The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.”

— Oscar Wilde

“He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He was an ill-bred, uneducated man, but very wealthy.”

— Harriet Ann Jacobs

“Like other self-educated men, he was vain of his vocabulary.”

— Ross Macdonald

“I was turning out to be college educated and unemployable in even the most basic way.”

— Tina Fey

“I never think of him as a scholar assaulting me with how much he knows, but as a teacher eager to share a lifelong…

— William Zinsser

“But I knew a lot more than that; I knew exactly what sort of man he was in his old age, so it wasn't…

— Ralph Moody

“As you first see him he wonders frequently whether he is not without honor and slightly mad, a shameful and obscene thinness glistening on…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He was too handsome, too strong-willed, too wealthy, too daring, and otherwise not ideal.”

— Becky Wade

“What is called an educated person is often someone who has had a dangerously superficial exposure to a wide spectrum of subjects.”

— Thomas Sowell

“He certainly seemed to have all the qualities of a gentleman, but the interesting kind who knows exactly when to stop behaving like one.”

— Michael Dibdin

“...like many another self-educated man, he attached an exaggerated importance to the knowledge he had so painfully acquired and could not resist the temptation…

— W. Somerset Maugham