Famous Quotes | It is well for our vanity that...

It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime. - Oscar Wilde
Attribution: Oscar Wilde (1854–1900), Anglo-Irish playwright, author. Gilbert, in The Critic as Artist, pt. 1, published in Intentions (1891).

Categories: Author, Capital Punishment, Playwright

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