Showing posts with label Oscar Wilde. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oscar Wilde. Show all posts
Friday, 17 May 2024
Friday, 11 March 2022
Wednesday, 26 January 2022
Not Rocket Science
One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfils our worst wishes.
In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat.
Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
— Aldous Huxley
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
— George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
— Bertrand Russell
Heroism on command,
senseless violence,
and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism
– how passionately I hate them!
— Albert Einstein
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
— Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
— Samuel Johnson
Nationalism is a silly cock crowing on his own dunghill.
— Richard Aldington
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
Monday, 30 November 2020
Wednesday, 21 October 2020
Thursday, 17 September 2020
Wednesday, 12 August 2020
Saturday, 19 October 2019
Tuesday, 19 March 2019
Thursday, 17 January 2019
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
Gentleman Friends
A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.
— Oscar Wilde
True friends stab you in the front.
— Oscar Wilde
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Tuesday, 31 May 2016
Sunday, 22 March 2015
Wednesday, 10 September 2014
Monday, 21 July 2014
Wednesday, 19 February 2014
Journalism
By giving us the opinions of the uneducated,
journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
— Oscar Wilde
The difference between literature and journalism is
that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
— Oscar Wilde
In America the President reigns for four years,
and Journalism governs forever and ever.
— Oscar Wilde
journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
— Oscar Wilde
The difference between literature and journalism is
that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
— Oscar Wilde
In America the President reigns for four years,
and Journalism governs forever and ever.
— Oscar Wilde
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Tuesday, 19 March 2013
Thursday, 7 March 2013
Monday, 24 September 2012
Exploding A Myth
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
— Oscar Wilde
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