Oscar Wilde Wicked Quotations

One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.

In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all.

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.

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

I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.