11 Oscar Wilde Quotes on Morality

Oscar Wilde quotes on morality

18. All art is immoral.

41. There is no sin except stupidity.

45. 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.

48. The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

55. Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.

90. Conscience makes egotists of us all.

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

166. The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.

199. Charity creates a multitude of sins.

219. The supreme vice is shallowness.

238. Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.