20 More Quotes from Oscar Wilde

1. When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

2. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

3. If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

4. I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

5. After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own.
6. A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it. The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

7. My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

8. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

9. When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

10. Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

11. What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us. - Lady Windermere's Fan, Lady Windermere, Act IV

12. A bad man is the sort of man who admires innocence, and a bad woman is the sort of woman a man never gets tired of.

13. There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.

14. One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.

15. The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

16. Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

17. I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

18. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. - Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act I

19. A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

20. When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

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