I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misundersto… - Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

nothing that is worth knowing can be taught

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being

In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an Improvement certainly. but still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralising. Somebody - was it Burke? - called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time, no doubt. But at the present moment it really is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, The Lords Spiritual have nothing to say and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by journalism.