"If there was less sympathy in the..." - Quote by Oscar Wilde

“If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.”

“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”

“I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.”

“I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.”

“Sympathy is what you have for someone after they die, pity you have for someone when they don't have a date to the biggest dance of the year. Empathy is what I do to you when you judge me. Envy is having pity on yourself. Can you discern the rest for yourself?”

“True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.”

“All knives and forks were working away at a rate that was quite alarming; very few words were spoken; and everybody seemed to eat his utmost, in self defence, as if a famine were expected to set in before breakfast-time to-morrow morning, and it had become high time to assert the first law of nature.”

“It is no easy task to lead men. But it is easy enough to drive them.”

“The streets of every city in America are filled with men who would pay all the money they could lay their hands on to be transformed, even for a day, into hairy, hard-fisted brutes who walk all over cops, extort drinks from terrified bartenders and roar out of town on big motorcycles after raping the banker's daughter.”