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  • Oscar Wilde Quotes   1859
  • Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Men Quotes , Vices Quotes
  • And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Grief Quotes , Blessing Quotes
  • Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Faith Quotes , Heart Quotes