Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to life. Selfishness always aims at crating around it an absolutely uniformity of type.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested...

Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested...

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

The proper school to learn art is not life but art

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels...

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels...

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is...

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is...

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless...

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; it is the faithless...

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of...

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of...

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is...

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is...

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind...

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind...

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a...

With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a...

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that,...

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that,...

35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very...

35 is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very...

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us;...

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us;...

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot...

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot...

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.