Oscar Wilde Quotations Man and Morality

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing,
and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
 

A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is usually plain.
 

A true friend stabs you in the front.
 

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
 

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
 

Charity creates a multitude of sins.
 

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
 

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
 

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future
 

Anybody can be good in the country; there are no temptations there.

 
He hadn’t a single redeeming vice.
 

Nothing makes one so vain as being told one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
 

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.
 

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
 

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
 

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
 

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