More from Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), Act III
Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
Oscar Wilde on ideas
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), Chapter I
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