Oscar Wilde Quotes About Temptation

• We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Positive

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 3 (1892)

• By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Anniversary, Single, Funny Valentines Day

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.32, Courier Corporation

• The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Yield, Temptation, Way

  The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 2 (1891) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 53

• Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “An Ideal Husband”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

• The only thing I can't resist is temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Temptation, I Can

• The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Yield, Law, Sick

  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.21, Oxford University Press on Demand

• The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Temptation

• But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Passion, Yield

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.29, Prestwick House Inc

• I can resist everything except temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

  Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

• Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Temptation, Be Good

  'The Picture of Dorian Gray' (1891) ch. 19

• Some temptations are so great it takes great courage to yield to them.

  Oscar Wilde

  Courage, Yield, Temptation

• Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Doctors, Wife

  "The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays".

• Work is the curse of the drinking class.
  I can resist everything except temptation.
  Moderation is a fatal thing - nothing succeeds like excess.
  We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are looking at the stars.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stars, Drinking, Class

• Sometimes it takes courage to give into temptation.

  Oscar Wilde

  Courage, Giving, Temptation

• I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Temptation, Resistance

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