Oscar Wilde Vanity Quotations

It is well for our vanity that we slay the criminal, for if we suffered him to live he might show us what we had gained by his crime.

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.

The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity.

If only the picture could grow old, and I stay young. For that...for that, I would give my SOUL for that.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.