Oscar Wilde Quotes About Evil

• Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

  Oscar Wilde

  Party, Speak No Evil, Cocktails

• Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Evil, Luck

  "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young" (1894)

• We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

  Oscar Wilde

  Evil, World, Criminal Mind

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.476, Wordsworth Editions

• Salomé, Salomé, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of giant wings. I cannot tell what they mean .... I am sad to-night. Therefore dance for me. Dance for me, Salomé, I beseech you. If you dance for me you may ask of me what you will, and I will give it you, even unto the half of my kingdom.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mean, Night, Wings

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Drinking, Beer

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations”, p.26, Courier Corporation

• In war," answered the weaver, "the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Strong, Children

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.250, Wordsworth Editions

• Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Attitude, Two

• There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beautiful, Evil, Realizing

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.125, Oxford University Press on Demand

• It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property.

  Oscar Wilde

  Order, Evil, Use

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1034, GENERAL PRESS

• The evil that machinery is doing is not merely in the consequence of its work but in the fact that it makes men themselves machines also.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Evil, Machines

• There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.

  Oscar Wilde

  Passion, Evil, Imagination

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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