Duty Quotes by Oscar Wilde

“Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.”

— Oscar Wilde

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

— Oscar Wilde

The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.

— Oscar Wilde

Duty is what one expects from others.

— Oscar Wilde

Dammit Sir, it's your duty to get married. You can't always be living for pleasure!

— Oscar Wilde

The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet…

— Oscar Wilde

JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in…

— Oscar Wilde

If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we…

— Oscar Wilde

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of…

— Oscar Wilde

On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.

— Oscar Wilde

If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.

— Oscar Wilde

“Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. Health is the primary duty of life.”

— Oscar Wilde

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly -- that is what each of us is here for. People…

— Oscar Wilde

What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased…

— Oscar Wilde

And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like…

— Oscar Wilde

Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness,…

— Oscar Wilde

My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

— Oscar Wilde