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Quotes by Johann Oscar Wilde 361-400
361 Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
362 Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
363 Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.
364 I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
365 Men marry because they are tired; woman, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
366 The heart was made to be broken.
367 I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
368 You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
369 Biography lends to death a new terror.
370 To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.
371 When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
372 Those whom the gods love grow young.
373 If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
374 An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
375 Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.
376 The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
377 It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
378 A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
379 There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
380 Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
381 You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
382 Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
383 There are moments when one has to choose between living one’s own life, fully, entirely, completely – or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.
384 Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
385 I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar and often convincing.
386 Nowadays most people die from a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it’s too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
387 A poet can survive everything bat a misprint.
388 Time is a waste of money.
389 When there is sorrow, there is holy ground.
390 Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.
391 The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
392 Punctuality is the thief of time.
393 I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
394 To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
395 It is always the unreadable that occurs.
396 An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
397 Every great man nowadays has his disciplines, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
398 The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
399 If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
400 Hearts Live By Being Wounded.
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