Authority Quotes by Oscar Wilde

10 Authority quotes by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde’s ten memorable lines pack his trademark wit and irony into a bite‑size bundle. Perfect for a quick read, they showcase why his humor still resonates.

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Authority is quite degrading.

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Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.

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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

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Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority.

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The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art…

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All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised.

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“As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time,…

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The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art.…

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All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies…

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“All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised. When it is…

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How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?

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The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

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Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others

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Who, being loved, is poor?

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“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life…

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Anybody can be good in the country

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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“Alles Populäre ist falsch.”

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“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are…

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To love one's self is the beginning of a life-long romance

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“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”

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Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last…

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Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne.

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Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

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Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a…

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