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Quotes by Johann Oscar Wilde 281-320
281 Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.
282 I beg your pardon I didn’t recognize you – I’ve changed a lot.
283 Hatred is blind, as well as love.
284 Memory is a diary we all carry about with us.
285 When I think of all the harm the Bible has done, I despair of ever writing anything equal to it.
286 Each man kills the thing he loves.
287 The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
288 I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
289 People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it’s impossible to count them accurately.
290 The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.
291 It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.
292 To get back one’s youth one has merely to repeat one’s follies.
293 A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
294 It’s a beautiful woman’s fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes.
295 The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
296 If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
297 America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier is history than itself.
298 Being neutral is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
299 This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
300 Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
301 Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
302 This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.
303 Memory is the diary that chronicles thing that never happened or couldn’t possibly have happened.
304 He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
305 I can believe anything provided it is incredible.
306 The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
307 Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
308 Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
309 It’s the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
310 The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
311 I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.
312 Each of us has heaven and hell in him.
313 A man’s face is his autobiography. A woman’s face is her work of fiction.
314 To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people – that is all.
315 When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
316 It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously.
317 America had often been discovered before Columbus, but is had always been hushed up.
318 Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
319 The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.
320 If you cannot write well, you cannot think well; if you cannot think well, others well do your thinking for you.
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