Oscar Wilde: Quotes about people

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

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

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”

“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

“Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”

“Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do.”

“One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.”

“To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!”

“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”

“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”

“It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible….”

“I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them.”

“Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.”

“My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.”