--- title: "5 Committed Quotes By Oscar Wilde" description: "5 Committed quotes by Oscar Wilde. Plus more from Oscar Wilde and more Committed sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0e/oscar-wilde-16_committed_after-playing-chopin-i-feel-as-if-i-had_136022.jpg" --- > [After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/after-playing-chopin-i-feel-as-if-i-had-been-weeping-over-sins-that-i/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0e/oscar-wilde-16_committed_after-playing-chopin-i-feel-as-if-i-had_136022.jpg) > [“As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/as-one-reads-history-not-in-the-expurgated-editions-written-for/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/459/oscar-wilde-16_authority_as-one-reads-history-not-in-the-expurgat_193338.jpg) > [As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/as-one-reads-history-one-is-absolutely-sickened-not-by-the-crimes/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8e/oscar-wilde-16_capital-punishment_as-one-reads-history-one-is-absolutely-s_1339254.jpg) > [A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/a-method-of-procuring-sensations-do-you-think-then-that-a-man-who-has/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7aa/oscar-wilde-16_committed_a-method-of-procuring-sensations-do-you_1805633.jpg) > [After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/after-playing-chopin-i-feel-as-if-i-had-been-weeping-over-sins-that-i-2/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/04c/oscar-wilde-16_chopin_after-playing-chopin-i-feel-as-if-i-had_2913125.jpg) ## Other authors on Committed ## More by Oscar Wilde > [How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/how-else-but-through-a-broken-heart-may-lord-christ-enter-in/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/the-books-that-the-world-calls-immoral-are-the-books-that-show-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/bachelors-should-be-heavily-taxed-it-is-not-fair-that-some-men-should/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Who, being loved, is poor?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/who-being-loved-is-poor/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/basil-my-dear-boy-puts-everything-that-is-charming-in-him-into-his/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Anybody can be good in the country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/anybody-can-be-good-in-the-country/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/i-don-t-at-all-like-knowing-what-people-say-of-me-behind-my-back-it/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/alles-popul-re-ist-falsch/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/if-these-elements-of-beauty-are-real-the-whole-thing-simply-appeals/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/to-love-one-s-self-is-the-beginning-of-a-life-long-romance/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/those-who-find-beautiful-meanings-in-beautiful-things-are-the/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/men-always-want-to-be-a-womans-first-love-women-have-a-more-subtle/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/why-is-it-that-at-a-bachelor-s-establishment-the-servants-invariably/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/moderation-is-a-fatal-thing-enough-is-as-bad-as-a-meal-more-than/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) > [Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/beauty-is-the-only-thing-that-time-cannot-harm-philosophies-fall-away/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/committed/oscar-wilde/#itemlist", "name": "5 Committed Quotes By Oscar Wilde", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Oscar Wilde" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/after-playing-chopin-i-feel-as-if-i-had-been-weeping-over-sins-that-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0e/oscar-wilde-16_committed_after-playing-chopin-i-feel-as-if-i-had_136022.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0e/oscar-wilde-16_committed_after-playing-chopin-i-feel-as-if-i-had_136022.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0e/oscar-wilde-16_committed_after-playing-chopin-i-feel-as-if-i-had_136022.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over…” — Oscar Wilde", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Oscar Wilde" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/as-one-reads-history-not-in-the-expurgated-editions-written-for/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/459/oscar-wilde-16_authority_as-one-reads-history-not-in-the-expurgat_193338.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/459/oscar-wilde-16_authority_as-one-reads-history-not-in-the-expurgat_193338.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/459/oscar-wilde-16_authority_as-one-reads-history-not-in-the-expurgat_193338.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original…” — Oscar Wilde", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Oscar Wilde" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/as-one-reads-history-one-is-absolutely-sickened-not-by-the-crimes/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8e/oscar-wilde-16_capital-punishment_as-one-reads-history-one-is-absolutely-s_1339254.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8e/oscar-wilde-16_capital-punishment_as-one-reads-history-one-is-absolutely-s_1339254.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b8e/oscar-wilde-16_capital-punishment_as-one-reads-history-one-is-absolutely-s_1339254.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but…” — Oscar Wilde", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "A method of procuring sensations? 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