It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals,” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine,… — 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
I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“To influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike. You dislike me. I am quite aware of that.… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I would sooner lose my best friend than my worst enemy. To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but… — 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
