Oscar Wilde Quotes

Pastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

I've always tried to have a rule that you shouldn't make fun of innocent people who can't defend themselves. I find that a little unseemly and distasteful. But nothing's really sacred to me.

There are a great many good people, and a great many sane people here this afternoon. Unfortunately, by a kind of coincidence, all the good people are mad, and all the sane people are wicked.

Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.

I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.

I don't take myself seriously. Others should take me seriously, I don't.

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception.

I'm a holy man minus the holiness.

I'm a good Catholic girl in the way that Madonna is. In the sense that I'm not that good at all.

I was really good at being a bad guy.

The only thing worse than a liar is a liar that's also a hypocrite!

The Devil himself could not tell which government, England or France is more wicked.

I like to think of myself as a virtuous troll.

The only way the devil really exists in my opinion... is in interactions with people who don't walk the walk and talk the talk; people who act one way, or talk one way and then do another. Those are the deals with the devil. I don't see the devil as somebody who is a horned, goateed guy with a fork in his hand that's there to continuously stab me and send my soul to hell. I don't see it that way at all.

I don't lie," I lied.

He was such a good man that people hated to see him coming.

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

Good people all, with one accord, Lament for Madam Blaize, Who never wanted a good word From those who spoke her praise.

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

Half of the people lie with their lips; the other half with their tears

[Hawthorne''s] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while.

I don't approve of people who watch television, but I am one of them.

You're a wicked man." "Thank you. It's taken years of diligent practice.

I observe a lot of you drunk people. What I do is I just let myself go there and fully commit to that drunk thing, not that I've ever done that myself. I've had a lot of practice. Let's be honest.