More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

First attributed to St. Teresa by Truman Capote in "Go Ahead and Ask Me Anything.' (And So She Did): An Interview with Truman Capote" by Gloria Steinem, in McCall's magazine (November 1967), as the source of the title of a novel he was working on called Answered Prayers.

Likely a variant of “I remember having read somewhere, in some strange book, that when the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers,” a quip found in act 2 of Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband.