5 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Conformity

Oscar Wilde quotes on conformity

37. I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

42. To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

200. Closed eyes listen, afraid to see on their own. Easily influenced and simply conformed.

224. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

239. One of the requisites of sanity is to disagree with the majority of the British public.