"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius." ― Oscar Wilde Topic(s): Forgiveness Tags: public, tolerant, wonderfully More From Oscar Wilde "The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation." "Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects." "When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is." More In Forgiveness "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."― Martin Luther King, Jr. "The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it."― Simon Wiesenthal "One forgives to the degree that one loves."― Francois de La Rochefoucauld