Quotes by Wilde, Oscar

You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man a >>

Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty >>

Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much. >>

Quotations about Punishment

Let us have compassion for those under chastisement. Alas, who are we >>

And where the offence is, let the great axe fall. >>

Many without punishment, none without sin. >>

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 brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

Wilde, Oscar