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Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.
– Oscar Wilde

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  1. Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one’s worse habits. – Oscar Wilde
  2. If one plays good music, people don’t listen, and if one plays bad music people don’t talk. – Oscar Wilde
  3. Bad artists always admire each others work. – Oscar Wilde
  4. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. – Oscar Wilde
  5. Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective – Colleen Hoover
  6. I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying. – Oscar Wilde
  7. Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves? – Oscar Wilde
  8. It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church, but there is no difficulty at all about sleeping. – Oscar Wilde
  9. Music has become my driving force behind my life, it to me, can fix bad moods, bad days, even bad people. It is the beat of my life. – Rian Dawson
  10. Angels are good not simply because they see bad as bad, but also because they see bad as corny. – Criss Jami
  11. Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good. – Dejan Stojanovic
  12. If the book’s bad enough, they’ll publish it, and if it’s bad bad enough, the daily reviewers will love it, and it’ll sell. – James Purdy
  13. Too bad for the storytellers. Too bad for the sense makers, the apologists, that nothing, then or ever, nothing was inevitable. It’s just too bad. – Jincy Willett
  14. Karna is a good man, but he sees good even in what is bad. His seeing it as good doesn’t make the bad good, but makes his goodness look bad. – Kavita Kan
  15. In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor. – Oscar Wilde
  16. I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses. – Oscar Wilde
  17. He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one’s eyes, and does not look at him. – Oscar Wilde
  18. Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. – Oscar Wilde
  19. Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. – Oscar Wilde
  20. Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. – Oscar Wilde
  21. Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. – Oscar Wilde
  22. Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself.She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. – Oscar Wilde
  23. Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself – Oscar Wilde
  24. The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence. – Oscar Wilde
  25. The Noblest form of Affection – Oscar Wilde
  26. The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. – Oscar Wilde
  27. Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. – Oscar Wilde
  28. Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better. – Oscar Wilde
  29. Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions. – Oscar Wilde
  30. I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say. – Oscar Wilde
  31. Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. – Oscar Wilde
  32. I have a business appointment that I am anxious… to miss. – Oscar Wilde
  33. My dear fellow, it isn’t easy to be anything nowadays. There’s such a lot of beastly competition about. – Oscar Wilde
  34. To realise one’s nature perfectly-”that is what each of us is here for. – Oscar Wilde
  35. Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask and he’ll tell you the truth – Oscar Wilde
  36. No man is rich enough to buy back his past. – Oscar Wilde
  37. It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought. – Oscar Wilde
  38. They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance. – Oscar Wilde
  39. America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself. – Oscar Wilde
  40. Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. – Oscar Wilde

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