Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
OSCAR WILDESome cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
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Every woman is a rebel.
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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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Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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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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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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Hearts are made to be broken.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
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