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 simply
beasts. I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural
virtue. -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the
smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simply
beasts. I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural
virtue. -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Related:
- On an occaision of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak
one's mind.
It becomes a pleasure. --Oscar Wilde, from The Importance of Being Earne... - Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and
discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are
one's mistakes.
-- Oscar Wilde... - I quite agree with you," said the Duchess; "and the moral of
that is -- `Be what you would seem to be' -- o
if you'd like it put more simply -- `Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.... - I quite agree with you, said the Duchess; and the moral of that is -- 'Be
what you would seem to be' -- o
if you'd like it put more simply -- 'Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.... - I quite agree with you, said the Duchess; and the moral of
that is -- `Be what you would seem to be' -- o
if you'd like it put more simply -- `Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.... - Relations are simply a tedious pack of people,
who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live,
nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), "The Importance of Being Earnest", 1895... - Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't the remotest
knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
-- Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earne... - Either that wallpaper goes, or I do." ~~ Oscar Wilde, writer, d. November 30, 1900
