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Quotes by Johann Oscar Wilde 201-240
201 Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly.
202 A man is happy with a woman as long as he don’t love her.
203 It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.
204 For one moment out lives met, our souls touched.
205 I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.
206 Some things are too important to be taken seriously.
207 The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
208 As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
209 I love to talk about nothing it’s the only thing I know anything about.
210 Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
211 The value of an idea has nothing to do with the honesty of the man expressing it.
212 If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
213 Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
214 No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
215 The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
216 Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
217 Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.
218 Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.
219 There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It’s a thing no married man knows anything about.
220 When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
221 I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.
222 Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
223 The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
224 Women are made to be loved, not understood.
225 I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
226 Bad artists always admire each others work.
227 No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
228 When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
229 If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.
230 The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
231 Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
232 Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
233 They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
234 Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
235 A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
236 The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
237 Industry is the root of all ugliness.
238 Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
239 Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
240 It seems to me that we all look at nature too much, and live with her too little.
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