Oscar Wilde: Quotes about people (page 2)

“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”

“Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.”

“People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.”

“It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.”

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.”

“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.”

“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”

“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”

“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.”

“Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.

Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.”

“Yes, very sensible… People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.”

“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”

“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”

“Most people are boring and stupid.”

“If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”

“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”

“I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.”

“I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.”

“Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.”