Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. - Oscar Wilde
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. - Oscar Wilde
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. - Oscar Wilde
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. - Oscar Wilde
'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure. - Oscar Wilde
The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart. - Oscar Wilde
The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out. - Oscar Wilde
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. - Oscar Wilde
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties. - Oscar Wilde
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