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Quotes by Johann Oscar Wilde 321-360
321 To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any of parts and culture.
322 I never change, except in my affections.
323 Men always want to be a woman’s first love – women like to be a man’s last romance.
324 The great events of the world take place in the brain.
325 A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
326 I can resist everything except temptation.
327 Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
328 Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
329 Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.
330 Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
331 If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want.
332 When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one’s self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
333 Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
334 Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
335 The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
336 He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.
337 America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
338 It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
339 Just because a man has died for it, does not make it true.
340 The play was a great success, but the audience was a total failure.
341 Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
342 I never read a book I must review; it prejudices you so.
343 Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
344 The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.
345 An Artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.
346 He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
347 I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
348 Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.
349 Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
350 A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.
351 To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
352 If you know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
353 Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
354 The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.
355 Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
356 When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.
357 It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
358 The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
359 Even things that are true can be proved.
360 Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.
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