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  • Oscar Wilde Quotes   1859
  • Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Destiny Quotes , Men Quotes
  • As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Punishment Quotes , Community Quotes
  • The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Liars Quotes , Lying Quotes