Joy Quote by Oscar Wilde

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than…

— Oscar Wilde

“He felt that if he brooded on what he had gone through he would sicken or grow mad. There were sins whose fascination was…

— Oscar Wilde

“He remembered enthusiasm, hope, and a kind of jubilation or exultation. Cheerfulness, yes, and joviality, and the brief gratification of sex. Gladness, too, fullness…

— Evan S. Connell

“His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt.”

— Morley Callaghan

“And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I abhor: I began to experience envy…

— Theodore Dalrymple

“Joy blossoms in our hearts not as we try harder and harder to grow, but as we see more clearly the depth of our…

— Barbara Duguid

“These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered…

— Plutarch

“From the evil seed of lust all other deadly sins had sprung forth: pride in himself and contempt of others, covetousness in using money…

— James Joyce

“What those years said of themselves was that they were the most joyous of years, and anyone who failed to rejoice was immediately suspected…

— Milan Kundera

“The redeemed, through all eternity, will never taste one of the pleasures of sin; yet their happiness is complete. It would be my greatest…

— Bonar, Andrew A

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

— Oscar Wilde

“He burned to appease the fierce longing of his heart before which everything else was idle and alien. He cared little that he was…

— James Joyce