Oscar Wilde Quotes
The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.
Wilde, Oscar. "The Soul of Man Under Socialism." The Fortnightly Review, vol. 49, no. 290, Feb. 1891, p. 320.
Often misattributed to Abraham Lincoln possibly because the quote is found in a paper Lowell wrote about Lincoln but he wasn’t quoting him.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46.