Oscar Wilde Quotes About Hypocrisy

• There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hypocrisy, World, Demand

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “The Plays of Oscar Wilde”, p.187, Wordsworth Editions

• I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hypocrisy, Wicked, Would Be

  'The Importance of Being Earnest' (1895) act 2

• Only the shallow know themselves.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Life, Sarcastic

  Oscar Wilde, Alvin Redman (1959). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.209, Courier Corporation

• Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Trust, Being Yourself

  Oscar Wilde (2012). “The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde”, p.64, Courier Corporation

• We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

  Oscar Wilde

  Trust, Betrayal, Integrity

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1491, Delphi Classics

• For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die.

  Oscar Wilde

  Death, Hypocrisy, Dying

  The Ballad of Reading Gaol pt. 3, st. 37 (1898)

• The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.

  Oscar Wilde

  Hypocrite, Men, Ideas

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “The Picture of Dorian Gray: The Story of a Fashionable Young Man Who Sells His Soul for Eternal Youth and Beauty (Beloved Books Edition)”, p.15, Lulu Press, Inc

• How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

  Oscar Wilde

  Clever, Mean, Hypocrisy

  "The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings".

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