It was a poor thing she felt for anyone to be born a foreigner.
Sin is the only color- element left in modern life.
Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.
What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
Suddenly we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators.
Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men.
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating.
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
Most people are boring and stupid.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor.
To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.
Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.
It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world.
Everything popular is wrong.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
In this constant battle which we call living, we try to set a code of conduct according to the society in which we are brought up, whether it be a Communist society or a so-called free society; we accept a standard of behaviour as part of our tradition as Hindus or Muslims or Christians or whatever we happen to be.
I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.
I think the first duty of society is justice.
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.