Oscar Wilde Insulting Quotations

The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

Life is too short to learn German