Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
OSCAR WILDEThe only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.
More Oscar Wilde Quotes
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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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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After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.
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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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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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You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?
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Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
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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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Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
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