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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Ethics

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Duty is what one expects from others.

Duty is what one expects from others.

Oscar Wilde
Responsibility, Ethics, Duty
Oscar Wilde, Peter Raby (2008). “The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays: Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.127, Oxford Paperbacks

Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!

Oscar Wilde
Hate, Ethics, Abstract
Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.192, Wordsworth Editions

No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

Oscar Wilde
Artist, Style, Ethics
Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.57, Oxford University Press on Demand

Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

Oscar Wilde
Integrity, Ethics, Moral
Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.999, Wordsworth Editions

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

Oscar Wilde
Principles, Prejudice, Ethics
Oscar Wilde (1983). “Two Society Comedies”, A&C Black

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

Oscar Wilde
Age, Ethics, Morality
Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (with an Essay by Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly)”, p.50, Mondial

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