Oscar Wilde Quotes

To do nothing evil is good; to wish nothing evil is better.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

The just man walks in his integrity

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

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.

You want beauty,' said Hercules Poirot. 'Beauty at any price. For me, it is truth. I want always truth.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

How goodness heightens beauty!

Virtue is reason which has become energy.

The good is the beautiful.

When you're righteous, you don't have to tell people that you're righteous.

I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments.

Moral character has now some influence in our elections, but not that place which it deserves. The law of public opinion excludes confirmed sots, and persons judicially convicted of high crimes and misdemeanors against the State; but it ought to render the election of all profane swearers, notorious Sabbath breakers, seducers, slanderers, prodigals and riotous persons, as well as the advocates of dueling, impracticable.

Prosperity seldom chooses the side of the virtuous.