Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
OSCAR WILDEAnybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
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The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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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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Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
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Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
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The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.
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