Dangerous Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image “Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dangerous Grow Old Grows Ideal husband Modern Modernism Old fashion Old fashioned
Don't bother about being modern. Unfortunately it is the one thing that, whatever you do, you cannot avoid. — Salvador Dali Copy Share Image
One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
You will be old-fashioned one day. It's more shocking than getting old. — Enid Bagnold Copy Share Image
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The risk climate of modernity is thus unsettling for everyone: no one escapes. — Anthony Giddens Copy Share Image
There is a built-in danger in old age which, if we give in to it, makes aging one of the most difficult periods of… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
To be modern is to find ourselves in an environment that promises us adventure, power, joy, growth, transformation of ourselves and the world -… — Marshall Berman 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
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
In my youth-team days, I was always a left-winger who would stay close to the byline and put crosses in the box, so I… — Arjen Robben Copy Share Image
The temptations of God were always more dangerous for mankind than those of Satan. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
When you start talking about elections being rigged, you're pushing people beyond democratic governance. And it's a very, very dangerous thing to do. — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that we as… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
Die gefährlichste Weltanschauung ist die Weltanschauung derer, die die Welt nie angeschaut haben. (The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world) — Alexander von Humboldt Copy Share
The most dangerous creature here would have to be me. So maybe I'm just scared of my own shadow. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
The more people that learn about you, even if you're an underdog, then you can come under fire a lot and the more attention… — Gerard Way Copy Share Image