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Quotes by Johann Oscar Wilde 41-80
41 The art is nothing without the gift. But the gift is nothing without work.
42 Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.
43 I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
44 Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
45 A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
46 I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.
47 One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.
48 Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
49 The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
50 It is only by not paying one’s bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
51 Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.
52 I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
53 Music makes one feel so romantic – at least it always gets on one’s nerves – which is the same thing nowadays.
54 We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it.
55 Life is the art of being well deceived, and to succeed, it must be habitual and uninterrupted.
56 While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
57 The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
58 In married life three is company and two none.
59 Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
60 There is no sin except stupidity.
61 My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.
62 Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar und often convincing.
63 One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
64 I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
65 The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.
66 It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
67 Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
68 I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.
69 The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion – these are the two things that govern us.
70 Everything popular is wrong.
71 Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
72 I want my feed dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
73 Life is too important to be taken seriously.
74 The one charm about marriage is that is makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
75 Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
76 We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
77 In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
78 There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
79 A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
80 Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
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