Oscar Wilde Quotations Class and Society

It is perfectly monstrous the way people
go about nowadays saying things against one,
behind one’s back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
 

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
 

Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labour.
 

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
 

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
 

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
 

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
 

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

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. 
 

Why was I born with such contemporaries?
 

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
 

Everything popular is wrong.
 

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

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
 

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one’s back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
 

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
 

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
 

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
 

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Intellect and Reason
Love and marriage
Art and Beauty
Life and Death
Man and Morality
Youth and Age
Men and Women
English and Americans

Class and Society
Work and Money
Journalism and Literature
Success and failure
Human failings
Foibles
Truth and Creativity