"If one tells the truth, one is..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.”

“Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism.”

“In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.”

“We are of different opinions at different hours, but we always may be said to be at heart on the side of truth.”

“The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it.”

“Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do.”

“The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.”

“For my part, I love to stand foot to foot with an honest foeman. To open warfare, bold and true hearts raise no objection but the ground of quarrel; it is covert enmity which we have most cause to fear, and best reason to loathe. That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.”

“It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”