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Oscar Wilde quote: “When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”

“When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Source: An Ideal Husband

“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Lord Darlington, Act II
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Variant: A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Variant: It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love
Source: An Ideal Husband

“There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”

Oscar Wilde

Variant: There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”

Oscar Wilde

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Lord Darlington, Act I
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

Oscar Wilde book De Profundis

De Profundis (1897)

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”

Oscar Wilde