Quotes About Society

Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry, languidly.

Lord Henry had not come in yet. He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

You are unjust to women in England. And till you count what is a a shame in a woman to be an infamy in a man, you will always be unjust, and Right, that pillar of fire, and Wrong, that pillar of cloud, will be made dim to your eyes, or be not seen at all, or if seen, not regarded.

The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great.

ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.

Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?  They seem, as a class, to have absolutely no sense of moral responsibility.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public.  Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.  They are so far away from us that only the poet can understand them.

Nowadays all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.

I felt that this grey, monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its sordid sinners and its splendid sins

The St. James's

We live in the age of the over-worked, and under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people-that is all.

I can quite understand a man accepting laws that protect private property, and admit of its accumulation, as long as he himself is able under those conditions to realise some form of beautiful and intellectual life. But it is almost incredible to me how a man whose life is marred and made hideous by such laws can possibly acquiesce in their continuance.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.

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. 

People used to say of me that I was too individualistic. I must be far more of an individualist than ever I was. I must get far more out of myself than ever I got, and ask far less of the world than ever I asked. Indeed, my ruin came not from too great individualism of life, but from too little. The one disgraceful, unpardonable, and to all time contemptible action of my life was to allow myself to appeal to society for help and protection.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. Youth! There is nothing like it.

They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it. The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion--these are the two things that govern us.

But, to the philosopher, my dear Gerald, women represent the triumph of matter over mind - just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Bugünlerde herkes her ÅŸeyin fiyat?n? biliyor, fakat hiçbir ÅŸeyin deÄŸerini bilmiyorlar.

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

The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion - these are the two things that govern us