Oscar Wilde Quotes about Sin

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You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Oscar Wilde

Sin, Dorian Grey, Portrait Of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.55, Oxford University Press on Demand

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

Oscar Wilde

Regret, Loss, Sin

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

Oscar Wilde

Vanity, Sin, Vain

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.65, Mondial

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.

Oscar Wilde

Mourning, Tragedy, Sin

1891 Intentions, 'The Critic as Artist'.

There's no sin but stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

Stupidity, Sin

The only sin is stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

Stupidity, Sin

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

Oscar Wilde

Parent, Sin, Hunger

Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.50, Oscar Wilde

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

Oscar Wilde

Stupidity, Sin

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Oscar Wilde

Charity, Sin, Multitudes

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Soul of Man under Socialism”, p.4, Oscar Wilde

The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

Oscar Wilde

Forgiveness, Caves, Sin

Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”, p.126, Oscar Wilde