Oscar Wilde Quotes

He cannot be vertuous that is not rigorous.

If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

Personal integrity implies such trustworthiness and incorruptibility that we are incapable of being false to a trust or covenant.

So far as regards their moral character, the Finns have as little cause for reproach as any other people.

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

Character is in turn the enduring source of virtue. It stands by itself and excites admiration in others. It is not obedience to authority, and while it is often consistent with and reinforced by religious belief, it is not piety.

Integrity is important in building relationships. And is the foundation upon which many other qualities for success are built, such as respect, dignity, and trust.

Integrity, like humility, is a quality which vanishes the moment we are conscious of it in ourselves. We see it only in others.

There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

If throughout your life you abstain from murder, theft, fornication, perjury, blasphemy, and disrespect toward your parents, church, and your king, you are conventionally held to deserve moral admiration even if you have never done a single kind, generous or useful action. This very inadequate notion of virtue is an outcome of taboo morality, and has done untold harm.

To be good and disagreeable is high treason against the royalty of virtue.

Virtue is its own reward.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

In point of morals, the average woman is, even for business, too crooked.

A man is not to aim at innocence, any more than he is to aim at hair, but he is to keep it.

If, on a full and final review, my life and practice shall be found unworthy of my principles, let due infamy be heaped on my memory; but let none be led thereby to distrust the principles to which I proved recreant, nor yet the ability of some to adorn them by a suitable life and conversation. To unerring time be all this committed.

Virtue is her own reward.

In all this world there is no substitute for personal integrity. It includes honor. It includes performance. It includes keeping one's word. It includes doing what is right regardless of the circumstances

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.