You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season.


The Writings of Oscar Wilde: Lord Arthur Savile's crime; The portrait of Mr. W. H., and other stories (ed. 1907)

Oscar Wilde Quotes

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need...

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need...

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need...

You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need...