"Why was I born with such contemporaries?..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“A good friend will always stab you in the front.”

“I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.”

“There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.”

“By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!”

“I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!”

“There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.”

“Civilization can only revive when there shall come into being in a number of individuals a new tone of mind independent of the one prevalent among the crowd and in opposition to it. A new public opinion must be created privately and unobtrusively. The existing one is maintained by the press, by propaganda, by organization, and by financial influences which are at its disposal. The unnatural way of spreading ideas must be opposed by the natural one, which goes from man to man and relies solely on the truth of the thoughts and the hearer's receptiveness of new truth.”

“I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.”

“In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness from us. Though we have gold to give, they demand only copper.”