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Society Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- Your machinery is beautiful. Your society people have apologized to me for the envious ridicule with which your newspapers have referred to me. Your newspapers…
- I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.
- Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.
- The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.
- The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.
- ...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison.
- On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and…
- They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.
- Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.
- He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays.
- The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete…
- Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
- Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
- If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
- Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
- I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
- Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
- Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
- Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.
- For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it.
- Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and…
- 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…
- You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you.…
- To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!
- 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…
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