There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural virtue. It is unnatural virtue that makes the world, for those who… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does. I see… — oscar wilde Copy Share Image
“No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other’s character before… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“LADY BRACKNELL To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For the various spiritual forms of the imagination have a natural affinity with certain sensuous forms of art - and to discern… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“A fi bun inseamna a fi in armonie cu tine insuti. Disonanta inseamna a fi in armonie cu altii” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is [hu]man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
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