Quotes about Society
Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
— Oscar Wilde
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
— Oscar Wilde
A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
— Oscar Wilde
There is something very morbid about modern sympathy with pain.
— Oscar Wilde
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination.When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
— Oscar Wilde
Girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.
— Oscar Wilde
Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.
— Oscar Wilde
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes
— Oscar Wilde
Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives.
— Oscar Wilde
There are only two ways, as you know, of becoming civilized. One is by being cultured, the other is by being corrupt.
— Oscar Wilde
Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry, languidly.
— Oscar Wilde
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
— Oscar Wilde