Oscar Wilde Quotes About Humanity

• Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.215, Wordsworth Editions

• The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.810, GENERAL PRESS

• I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

  Oscar Wilde

  Stupid, Simple, People

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.191, Courier Corporation

• A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias.

  Oscar Wilde

  Country, Land, Humanity

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.1051, Wordsworth Editions

• Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Laughing, Humanity

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Short Stories”, p.53, Cosimo, Inc.

• It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

  Oscar Wilde

  Humanity, Able, Way

  Oscar Wilde (1997). “Collected Works of Oscar Wilde: The Plays, the Poems, the Stories and the Essays Including De Profundis”, p.979, Wordsworth Editions

• Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Humanity, Philanthropy

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.45, First Avenue Editions

• Women treat us [men] like humanity treats gods – they worship us and keep bothering us to do something.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Humanity, Worship

• And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine.

  Oscar Wilde

  Dust, Humanity, Lust

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Essential Oscar Wilde”, p.300, Simon and Schuster

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