Oscar Wilde Sin Quotations

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

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

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

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

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

The only sin is stupidity.

There's no sin but stupidity.

The greatest of all sins is stupidity.

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

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...

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

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.