Showing posts with label Oscar Wilde. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oscar Wilde. Show all posts

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

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

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

Thursday, 7 March 2013

True Blue

True friends stab you in the front.
 — Oscar Wilde

Monday, 24 September 2012

Exploding A Myth

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
 — Oscar Wilde