Sin Quotes by Oscar Wilde

There is no sin except stupidity.

— Oscar Wilde

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

— Oscar Wilde

The only sin is stupidity.

— Oscar Wilde

Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime.

— Oscar Wilde

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

— Oscar Wilde

There's no sin but stupidity.

— Oscar Wilde

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

— Oscar Wilde

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

— Oscar Wilde

Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

— Oscar Wilde

Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life.

— Oscar Wilde

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

— Oscar Wilde

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.

— Oscar Wilde

The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave…

— Oscar Wilde

The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that…

— Oscar Wilde

And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in…

— Oscar Wilde

the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in…

— Oscar Wilde

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies…

— Oscar Wilde

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have…

— Oscar Wilde

Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes…

— Oscar Wilde

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.

— Oscar Wilde

There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He…

— Oscar Wilde

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there…

— Oscar Wilde

Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate,…

— Oscar Wilde

He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of…

— Oscar Wilde

After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies…

— Oscar Wilde

What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless.…

— Oscar Wilde

We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands,…

— Oscar Wilde

Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make…

— Oscar Wilde

There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that…

— Oscar Wilde

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded…

— Oscar Wilde

There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life,…

— Oscar Wilde

There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a…

— Oscar Wilde

“loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men…

— Oscar Wilde

When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child…

— Oscar Wilde

There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the…

— Oscar Wilde

All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

— Oscar Wilde

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the…

— Oscar Wilde

Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.

— Oscar Wilde

A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast,…

— Oscar Wilde

Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break And peace of pardon win! How else may man make straight his plan And…

— Oscar Wilde