As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
The unread is always better than the unreadable. - Oscar Wilde
The unread is always better than the unreadable.
- Oscar Wilde
Where your life leads you, you must go - Oscar Wilde
Where your life leads you, you must go
But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone. - Oscar Wilde
But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.
you will always love, and you will always be loved - Oscar Wilde
you will always love, and you will always be loved
It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable. - Oscar Wilde
It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.
I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out. - Oscar Wilde
I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.
This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go. - Oscar Wilde
This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.
I have nothing to declare except my genuis. - Oscar Wilde
I have nothing to declare except my genuis.
It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart. - Oscar Wilde
It's beauty that captures your attention. personality which captures your heart.
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