There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Up to the present man has hardly cultivated sympathy at all. He has merely sympathy with pain, and sympathy with pain is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image