Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wildewas an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth16 October 1854
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one
'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.
No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body.
Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef.
Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.
An opinion is not necesarily correct just because you're willing to die for it.
Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.
Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.