Quotes About Society

A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be.  That is his punishment.  Those who want a mask have to wear it.

Estoy harto de la inteligencia. Todo el mundo es inteligente en la actualidad. No se puede ir a ningún lado sin conocer a gente inteligente. La cosa se ??ha convertido en una verdadera calamidad pública. Desearía por sobre todas las cosas que aún nos quedaran algunos tontos.

Do you smoke? Jack.  Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. Lady Bracknell.  I am glad to hear it.  A man should always have an occupation of some kind. 

Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs.

Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.

My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

Sin is the only color- element left in modern life.

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

Gwendolen.  How absurd to talk of the equality of the sexes!  Where questions of self-sacrifice are concerned, men are infinitely beyond us.

loving for their mere artificiality those renunciations that men have unwisely called virtue, as much as those natural rebellions that wise men still call sin.

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. 

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

I don't see anybody here to-night whom one could possibly call a serious purpose.

El pecado es el único elemento colorido que queda en la vida moderna

The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society and on intimate terms with the people they slander.

Oh! I killed Bunbury this afternoon... I mean poor Bunbury died this afternoon. What did he die of? Bunbury? Oh, he was exploded!

We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

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

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

I hardly think that any Socialist, nowadays, would seriously propose that an inspector should call every morning at each house to see that each citizen rose up and did manual labour for eight hours.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain.