Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
OSCAR WILDEMost people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do – the day after.
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Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
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Who, being loved, is poor?
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I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
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