--- title: "4 Excess Quotes By Oscar Wilde" description: "4 Excess quotes by Oscar Wilde. Plus more from Oscar Wilde and more Excess sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c6/oscar-wilde-16_bags_to-be-born-or-at-any-rate-bred-in-a-hand_1713822.jpg" --- > [To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/to-be-born-or-at-any-rate-bred-in-a-hand-bag-whether-it-had-handles/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c6/oscar-wilde-16_bags_to-be-born-or-at-any-rate-bred-in-a-hand_1713822.jpg) > [Work is the curse of the drinking class. I can resist everything except temptation. Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/work-is-the-curse-of-the-drinking-class-i-can-resist-everything/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c71/oscar-wilde-16_class_work-is-the-curse-of-the-drinking-class_1881072.jpg) > [Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/nothing-is-good-in-moderation-you-cannot-know-good-in-anything-until/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6cb/oscar-wilde-16_excess_nothing-is-good-in-moderation-you-cannot_2805759.jpg) > [Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/moderation-is-a-fatal-thing-nothing-succeeds-like-excess/) [Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/oscar-wilde/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b01/oscar-wilde-16_excess_moderation-is-a-fatal-thing-nothing-succ_3182487.jpg) ## Other authors on Excess - [Aristotle 17 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/aristotle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-william-shakespeare-95899.jpg) William Shakespeare 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/william-shakespeare/) - [Ralph Waldo Emerson 9 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/ralph-waldo-emerson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-laozi-58536.jpg) Laozi 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/laozi/) - [Samuel Johnson 6 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/samuel-johnson/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b019/author-plato-75782.jpg) Plato 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/plato/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-mason-cooley-65303.jpg) Mason Cooley 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/mason-cooley/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-james-madison-46533.jpg) James Madison 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/james-madison/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-horace-42297.jpg) Horace 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/horace/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-charles-caleb-colton-22176.jpg) Charles Caleb Colton 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/charles-caleb-colton/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-blaise-pascal-18353.jpg) Blaise Pascal 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/excess/blaise-pascal/) ## 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/excess/oscar-wilde/#itemlist", "name": "4 Excess Quotes By Oscar Wilde", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Oscar Wilde" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/oscar-wilde/to-be-born-or-at-any-rate-bred-in-a-hand-bag-whether-it-had-handles/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c6/oscar-wilde-16_bags_to-be-born-or-at-any-rate-bred-in-a-hand_1713822.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c6/oscar-wilde-16_bags_to-be-born-or-at-any-rate-bred-in-a-hand_1713822.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c6/oscar-wilde-16_bags_to-be-born-or-at-any-rate-bred-in-a-hand_1713822.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a…” — Oscar Wilde", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Work is the curse of the drinking class. 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