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
- Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
- Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
- I can resist anything but temptation.
- A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
- All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
- 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.
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
- The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- One should absorb the colour of life but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.
Best Quotes
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- There are three classes of men lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
- A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
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- It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.
- The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
- War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.