Quotes from Oscar Wilde

When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats.

All trials are trials for one's life.

We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

he had been filled with terror lest other eyes should look upon it. It had brought melancholy across his passions. Its mere memory had marred many moments of joy. It had been like conscience to him. Yes, it had been conscience. He would destroy it.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.

You always want to know what one has been doing. I always want to forget what I have been doing.

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

Detrás de toda hermosura hay algo trágico

No Artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on... The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

The hand upon his shoulder weighed like a hand of lead. It was intolerable. It seemed to crush him.

El único error imperdonable en el que incurren todas las personas verdaderamente buenas y que nunca pueden evitar es conversar de forma sincera

Ehrgeiz ist die letzte Zuflucht des Versagers

Like all poetical natures he [Christ] loved ignorant people. He knew that in the soul of one who is ignorant there is always room for a great idea. But he could not stand stupid people, especially those who are made stupid by education: people who are full of opinions not one of which they even understand...

I am sick to death of cleverness.  Everybody is clever nowadays.  You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people.  The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. 

Cecily: - La explicación parece satisfactoria, ¿no? Gwendolen: - Sí, siempre que usted le crea. Cecily: - No le creo, pero eso no afecta la belleza de su respuesta

Who had a large wardrobe of Humour's cast-off clothes

Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life.

The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. what they call thier loyalty, and thier fidelity, i call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect- simply a confession of failure.

I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky

I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become a public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.

It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals

is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.