Oscar Wilde on quotations

True friends stab you in the front.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Voltaire1694–1778Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers (1767): Deuxième Entretien

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882May 1849

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.

Mark Twain1835–1910