Oscar Wilde Quotes on Morality
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All art is immoral.
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There is no sin except stupidity.
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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.
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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.
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Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
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Conscience makes egotists of us all.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
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The supreme vice is shallowness.
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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.