Oscar Wilde Quotes About Excuses

• The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Useless Things, Excuse

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

• Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

  Oscar Wilde

  Failure, Taste, Excuse

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.4, Courier Corporation

• I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Cities, America, Criminals

  Oscar Wilde (2010). “Oscar Wilde in America: The Interviews”, p.70, University of Illinois Press

• I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mind, Excuse, Puritan

  Oscar Wilde (1986). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays”

• I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.

  Oscar Wilde

  Simple, Curiosity, Asking

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.94, First Avenue Editions

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