The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
– Oscar Wilde
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- Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde
- Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde
- Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. – Oscar Wilde
- I don’t at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. – Oscar Wilde
- By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. – Oscar Wilde
- The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. – Oscar Wilde
- The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. – Oscar Wilde
- The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public. – Oscar Wilde
- My own curiosity and interest are insatiable. – Emma Lazarus
- Despite having seen a fair amount of the world, I still love travelling – I just have an insatiable curiosity and like looking out of a window. – Michael Palin