Quotes About Society

Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.  If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square. 

Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating.

My dear father, if we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it.

Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef ... Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees...

Ah! what a nuisance people's people are!

The public is wonderfully tolerant; it forgives everything except genius. Life

It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.

My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

JACK: For heaven's sake, don't try to be cynical. It's perfectly easy to be cynical. ALGERNON: My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. There's such a lot of beastly competition about.

Oh, I love London Society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

Oh, women have become so highly educated, Jane, that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages. They apparently are getting remarkably rare.

The trouble with Marxism is that it takes up too many evenings.

we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. With

we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities;

bardziej lubi? ludzi ni? zasady, a ponad wszystko lubi? ludzi bez ?adnych zasad.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it. Women

Todo delito es vulgar, de la misma manera que todo lo vulgar es delito.

are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Hiç evlenme, Dorian. Erkek, yorgun düÅŸtüÄŸü için evlenir, kad?n merak duyduÄŸu için. Ä°kisi de hayal k?r?kl???na uÄŸrarlar.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age.  London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.  Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point.  To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now. 

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

Wierno??! (...) Jest w niej pragnienie posiadania. Wiele rzeczy wyrzuciliby?my, gdyby nie obawa, ?e inni mog? j? podnie??.

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

LORD WINDERMERE: Well, that is no business of yours, is it, Cecil? CECIL GRAHAM: None! That is why it interests me. My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.