Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid. – Oscar Wilde
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. – Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. – Oscar Wilde
For his mourners will be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn. – Oscar Wilde
The most successful career must show a waste of strength that might have removed mountains, and the most unsuccessful is not that of the man who is taken unprepared, but of him who has prepared and is never taken. On a tragedy of that kind our national morality is duly silent. – E. M. Forster