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Quotes by Johann Oscar Wilde 121-160
121 The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
122 Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
123 Credit is a young man’s capital.
124 I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.
125 One’s past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
126 A kiss may ruin a human life.
127 Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.
128 I like men who have a future and woman who have a past.
129 Literature always anticipates life. It doesn’t copy it but moulds it to its purpose.
130 Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
131 The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
132 It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.
133 I would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
134 With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
135 There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is.
136 What is a cynic? A man knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
137 In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
138 The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
139 All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
140 Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
141 Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before marriage, which is never advisable.
142 I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
143 Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
144 The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet’s dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.
145 Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
146 I am not young enough to know everything.
147 A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
148 It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
149 The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano played by a sister or near relation.
150 If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
151 Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect – simply a confession of failure.
152 There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
153 What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
154 Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.
155 All great ideas are dangerous.
156 Who, being loved, is poor?
157 The only good thing to do with good advice is pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.
158 Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.
159 In this world there are only tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
160 One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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