"As a rule, I think they are..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde
As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.
More by Oscar Wilde
“Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.”
“It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing”
“Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in social legislation. If so, he is well punished for his morbidity. My dear Aunt Augusta, I mean he was found out! The doctors found out that Bunbury could not , that is what I mean—so Bunbury died. He seems to have had great confidence in the opinion of his physicians.”
More on Genius
“People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine.”
“Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or to build the new, but out of unhandselled savage nature, out of terrible Druids and Berserkirs, come at last Alfred and Shakespeare.”
“The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton.”
More on Conversation
“The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.”
“It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then only at dinner parties.”
“Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other.”