Oscar Wilde Quotes

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

Foolishness is indeed the sister of wickedness.

Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer sin.

Fools are without number.

… to escape censure a man must pass his whole life without saying or doing one ill or foolish thing.

According to the Stoics, all vice was resolvable into folly: according to the Christian principle, it is all the effect of weakness.

I can do with mistakes, but I can't deal with stupidity.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Knowledge becomes evil if the aim be not virtuous.

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

There is no sin but ignorance.

No one but a fool is always right.

Folly always knows the answer.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Sin is still sin - no matter how you spell it.