Oscar Wilde Quotes, Sympathy Quotes, Pain Quotes

Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

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I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.

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As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest.

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What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read.

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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

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The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

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Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification.

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I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.

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There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer.

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The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it.

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Be yourself, because others are already taken.

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With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

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The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.

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Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

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Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character.

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Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.

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Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.

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Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact.

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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.

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America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

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