"Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.












Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

More Oscar Wilde quotes
"If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about and that is not being talked about.
"Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does. I see that there is something wrong in what on...
"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
"Moral grounds are always the last refuge of people who have no sense of beauty.
"Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.
"Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing ...
"Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
"The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly—that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays....
"You come down here to console me. That is charming of you. You find me consoled, and you are furious. How like a sympathetic person!
"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful t...
"Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.