Selfishness is not living as one wisheThe cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. s to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they...

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they...

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it...

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it...

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to...

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to...

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.

Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,...

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,...

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell

We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell

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...

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...

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It...

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It...

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always...

When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always...

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should...

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should...

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life...

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life...

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that...

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that...

Each moment of our lives gives us many valuable and precious management lessons that may...

Each moment of our lives gives us many valuable and precious management lessons that may...