Quotes about Morality
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
— Oscar Wilde
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
— Oscar Wilde
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.
— Oscar Wilde
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious
— Oscar Wilde
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 native land of the hypocrite.
— Oscar Wilde
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
— Oscar Wilde
All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.
— Oscar Wilde
There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
— Oscar Wilde
It is very wrong to kill any one[.] Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!
— Oscar Wilde
My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
— Oscar Wilde
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 sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.
— Oscar Wilde
Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
— Oscar Wilde