If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.Oscar Wilde
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.Oscar Wilde
The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.Voltaire
The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work.Voltaire
When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.Voltaire
