I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
– Oscar Wilde
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- Friendship…is not something you learn in school,but if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship you really haven’t learned anything. – Oscar Wilde
- However, in many instances we might be very wise to ask what the consequence of removing the consequence might actually be. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- Just as war is the natural consequence of monopoly, peace is the natural consequence of liberty. – Gustave de Molinari
- Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. – Oscar Wilde
- Experience is a supreme teacher, but experience is not something that can be taught. It has to be learned through choice and consequence. – Toni Sorenson
- 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
- Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices. – Oscar Wilde
- Right time, right place, right people equals success.Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history. – Idries Shah
- There is no wrong answer. Even so, it is easy to receive wrong results, simply by asking the wrong question. – Brunonia Barry
- Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain’t got no business doing wrong when he ain’t ignorant and knows better. – Mark Twain
- The fact that good people can be forced to do wrong doesn’t make them less good. But it also doesn’t make the wrong less wrong. – Ovadya ben Malka
- I strongly object to wrong arguments on the right side. I think I object to them more than to the wrong arguments on the wrong side. – GK Chesterton
- Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choices feels the least wrong. – Colleen Hoover
- you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction? – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- It is wrong to kill anyone. It is wrong to kill those who kill. It is wrong to kill the executioner. The laws on murder must be killed! – Charles Nodier
- On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility. – Donald Miller
- I learned that true love turns the other cheek, does not take a wrong into account, loves all people regardless of their indifference or hostility. – Donald Miller
- A god who becomes a man shows mercy.A man who becomes a god does not. – Anonymous
- In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor. – Oscar Wilde
- 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
- Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders. – Oscar Wilde
- Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic. – Oscar Wilde
- Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. – Oscar Wilde
- 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
- The Noblest form of Affection – Oscar Wilde
- Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they’re better. – Oscar Wilde
- I wrote when I did not know life;now that I know life, I have no more to say. – Oscar Wilde
- Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching. – Oscar Wilde
- I have a business appointment that I am anxious… to miss. – Oscar Wilde
- My dear fellow, it isn’t easy to be anything nowadays. There’s such a lot of beastly competition about. – Oscar Wilde
- To realise one’s nature perfectly-”that is what each of us is here for. – Oscar Wilde
- No man is rich enough to buy back his past. – Oscar Wilde
- Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good. – Oscar Wilde
- America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. – Oscar Wilde
- I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. – Oscar Wilde
- Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking other people to live as one wishes to live. – Oscar Wilde
- What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities. – Oscar Wilde
- My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite. – Oscar Wilde