Society Quotes by Oscar Wilde

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

— Oscar Wilde

He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.

— Oscar Wilde

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

— Oscar Wilde

“We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces”

— Oscar Wilde

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

— Oscar Wilde

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

— Oscar Wilde

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply…

— Oscar Wilde

To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!

— Oscar Wilde

Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

— Oscar Wilde

The mask that people wear in society are always more interesting than the person hidden behind it.

— Oscar Wilde

“Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and…

— Oscar Wilde

On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is…

— Oscar Wilde

“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

“The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate…

— Oscar Wilde