Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 we personally dislike! — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is a man's original virtue.” — 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
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
“You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing. Your cynicism is simply a pose.” — 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral - immoral from the scientific point of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral—immoral from the scientific point of view.” “Why?” “Because… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism – are forced, indeed, so to spoil them. They… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art. Vice and virtue are the artist’s materials for an art. From… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral,—immoral from the scientific point of view.’ ‘Why?’… — 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 fascinating. It… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.” — 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 Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 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 been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.” quote by Oscar Wilde](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8c8/oscar-wilde-16_character_disobedience-in-the-eyes-of-any-one-who_2197666.jpg)
