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Quotes by Johann Oscar Wilde 161-200
161 It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world.
162 The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.
163 Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
164 Art only begins where imitation ends.
165 I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.
166 Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
167 There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
168 What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.
169 I like talking to a brick wall – it’s the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
170 Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
171 The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.
172 If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
173 Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
174 A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
175 Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
176 In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor.
177 The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
178 No good deed goes unpunished.
179 All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
180 Why was I born with such contemporaries?
181 As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
182 Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
183 I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.
184 Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, in the proper aim of Art.
185 The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
186 I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
187 Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
188 There is something terrible morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.
189 When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.
190 It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection.
191 All women become like their mothers. That is their strategy. No man does. That’s his.
192 If one plays good music, people don’t listen and if one plays bad music people don’t talk.
193 The unread is always better than the unreadable.
194 Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.
195 A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
196 No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
197 The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.
198 Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
199 In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
200 Only the shallow know themselves.
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