No good deed goes unpunished.
OSCAR WILDESelfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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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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Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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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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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.
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To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
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