War Quote by Steven Pinker

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease…

— Oscar Wilde

“- Oscar Wilde said that we always destroy the thing we love the most. And it is true. The simple possibility of achieving that…

— Paulo Coelho

“...Most attackers aren't going to be dissuaded by a witty remark." "That's profiling," said Mattheus. "Maybe they're Oscar Wilde fans." "He did have great…

— Amy Fecteau

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next…

— Max Beerbohm

“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination." Love Oscar Wilde, the man had a way witrh words.”

— Margot Justes

The part of [Oscar] Wilde was exceptionally important to me; the man, his achievements, his wisdom, but his downfall, his disgrace and the tragic…

— Stephen Fry

“My introduction, implicitly echoing Oscar Wilde's remark that all bad poetry is sincere, grants the benign social decency of [Stephen] King's fictions.”

— Harold Bloom

“Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, on the 15th October, 1856, so that he is now about twenty-six years of age, but brief as…

— Walter Hamilton

The Chinese general Sun Tzu said that all war was based on deception. Oscar Wilde said the same thing of romance.

— Marco Tempest

“I wonder whether certain dreadful events, of the sort this picture is full of, are not so incalculably rich in the possibilities of moral…

— James Agee

Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but…

— Bernard Cornwell

“Where war goes on without end, all men are inevitably corrupted by its brutality -- and the worst horrors are visited upon the most…

— Michael Ennis