Quotes About Society

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can't get into it do that.

It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world

When good Americans die, they go to Paris'. 'Where do bad Americans go?' 'They stay in America'.

And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.

Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools.

Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.

When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.

I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I'm feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That's not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.

You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?

I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Good heavens! how marriage ruins a man! It's as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.

Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right.