Logo
Quote by Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fasc

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. – Oscar Wilde

Other quotes by Oscar Wilde

I know not whether Laws be right or whether Laws be wrong; all that we know who live in gaol is that the wall is strong; and that each day is like a year, a year whose days are long. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Prison
Author
Oscar Wilde
Read Quote

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stock broker, can gain a reputation for being civilized. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Investment
Author
Oscar Wilde
Read Quote

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. – Oscar Wilde

Category:
Art
Author
Oscar Wilde
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
War
category

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. – Virginia Woolf

Category:
War

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known. – Thomas Hobbes

Category:
War

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua? – Bianca Jagger

Category:
War

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives… inside ourselves. – Albert Camus

Category:
War

Random Quotes

I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti. – Mario Batali

Category:
Forgiveness

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs. – Saint Francis de Sales

Category:
good

I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one. – Mike Krzyzewski

Category:
Imagination

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. – John F. Kennedy, 1961

Category:
Presidents Day