Oscar Wilde Quotes About Morality
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
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Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
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Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.
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His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be
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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.
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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
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Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
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What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics.
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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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.
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