Oscar Wilde Quotes About Liars

• The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society.

  Oscar Wilde

  Liars, Giving, Delight

  Oscar Wilde (1969). “The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde”, p.305, University of Chicago Press

• As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.

  Oscar Wilde

  Music, Lying, Liars

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.218, Oxford University Press

• The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

  Oscar Wilde

  Liars, Lying, Stories

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies”, p.60, Simon and Schuster

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