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Moral Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
- Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
- On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure.
- Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.
- There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
- Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things…
- I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to…
- The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that…
- He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to…
- I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest…
- Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels…
- And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the…
- Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient…
- Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for…
- There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
- I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to…
More Moral Quotes
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. — Robert Baden-Powell
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac