It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Confession Quotes, Guilt Quotes

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

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

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary...

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary...

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you...

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you...

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses...

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad....

I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad....

What seems to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

What seems to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life...

The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life...

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do,...

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do,...

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the...

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the...

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the...

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the...