Oscar Wilde Quotes About Manners

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  It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Luck, Enemy

  LadyWindermere's Fan act 1 (1892)

• The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.

  Oscar Wilde

  Oysters, World, Table Manners

• 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

• Bad manners make a journalist.

  Oscar Wilde

  Manners, Journalist, Bad Manners

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.141, Wordsworth Editions

• Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

  Oscar Wilde

  Spheres, Different, Importance Of Being Earnest

  Oscar Wilde (1994). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.47, Heinemann

• 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.

  Oscar Wilde

  Believe, Opinion, Moral

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories”, p.141, Penguin

• It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners.

  Oscar Wilde

  Mother, America, Insulting

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.55, BoD – Books on Demand

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