Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't.”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It's absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Probably no subject is too hard if people take the trouble to think and write and read clearly.” — William Knowlton Zinsser Copy Share Image
“My rule now is, never read anything that is not worth remembering.” — J. Reuben Clark Copy Share Image
“It’s always encouraging to be told that it is intellectually acceptable to read the sorts of things that you like to read anyway.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“It's maddening how someone so easy to read can be so impossible to understand.” — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“If what I reading has the power to grip me, I can read under the most difficult circumstances.” — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
“I hate it when people imply that people only read because they have nothing better to do.” — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
“As a rule, I believe people shouldn't follow rules; rules should follow people.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“There’s only one thing more stupid than stupid rules, and that’s the people who follow them.” — Sam Conniff Allende Copy Share Image
“Humans are easy to read, because what they’re not saying speaks volumes.” — Joel T. McGrath 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 but his prejudices his principles and his common sense. The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make and consequently are perfectly uninteresting… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
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