Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Quote by Oscar Wilde
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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
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Oscar Wilde Quotes
- One should absorb the colour of life but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
- A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
- A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
- Missionaries are going to reform the world whether it wants to or not.
- I can resist anything but temptation.
- About foxhunting: The unspeakable chasing the uneatable...
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life.
- All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
- A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Best Quotes
- It's something we, guys, have all done. Made tapes for girls, trying to impress them, to meet them on a shared plane of aesthetics. Read them someone else's poetry because they do poetry better than you could do it, because you're too awkward to do it.
- One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.
- Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
- I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books the other two are too small but they like the movies.
- In olden times sacrifices were made at the altar - a practice which is still continued.
- Never be a food snob. Learn from everyone you meet - the fish guy at your market, the lady at the local diner, farmers, cheese makers. Ask questions, try everything and eat up!
- There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
- The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.
- There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
- In a gentle way, you can shake the world.