Oscar Wilde Quotes
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
Wilde, Oscar. A Woman of No Importance. John Lane, 1894.
When Billy Carter ran for mayor of Plains, GA, he predicted:
Referring to his opponent in the 1926 New York gubernatorial race, incumbent Governor Al Smith:
While there are dramatic exceptions such as during the Nixon and George W. Bush administrations, compared to most other nations were the indicator of official lying is a leader’s lips moving, the United States is among the leading nations with respect to official deception of the citizens.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46.
