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Quotes by Johann Oscar Wilde 241-280
241 Genius lasts longer than beauty.
242 I may not agree with you, but I will defend to the death your right to make an ass of yourself.
243 Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
244 Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
245 I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
246 A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.
247 The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
248 Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
249 If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
250 The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
251 It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love.
252 Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
253 Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
254 The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
255 No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
256 Irony is wasted on the stupid.
257 When bankers get together they talk about art. When artist get together, they talk about money.
258 To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
259 They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.
260 Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
261 I am too old to know everything.
262 Beauty, real beauty, ends when intellectual expressions begin.
263 Duty is what one expects from others.
264 It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
265 The English country gentleman galloping after the fox – the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
266 Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
267 Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
268 I must remember that a good friend is a new world.
269 Man is many things, but he is not rational.
270 The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.
271 Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
272 A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
273 Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
274 To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
275 The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is being always absolutely over-educated.
276 Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.
277 If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
278 Good taste is the excuse I’ve always given for leading such a bad life.
279 When good Americans die they go to Paris.
280 Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the arts that influenced us. Too look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.
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