Quotes from Oscar Wilde

He repeated her name over and over again. The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her.

Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.

And after that they had gone through many streets they came to a little door that was set in a wall that was covered with a pomegranate tree. And the old man touched the door with a ring of graved jaspar and it opened, and they went down five steps of brass into a garden filled with black poppies and green jars of burnt clay.

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices." "The

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth;

and the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

I had been foolish in imagining that I had seen anything in it, more than that you were extremely good looking, and that I could paint.

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

La única manera de librarse de la tentación es ceder ante ella. Si se resiste, el alma enferma, anhelando lo que ella misma se ha prohibido, deseando lo que sus leyes monstruosas han hecho monstruoso e ilegal. Se ha dicho que los grandes acontecimientos del mundo suceden en el cerebro. Es también en el cerebro, y sólo en el cerebro, donde se cometen los grandes pecados.

My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

My dear fellow why have you any reason? What odd chaps you painters are. You do anything in the world to gain a reputation. As soon as you have one you seem to want to throw it away. It is silly of you for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Egotism itself, which is so necessary to a proper sense of human dignity, is entirely the result of indoor life. 

Of course I need not remind you how fluid a thing thought is with me-- with us all-- and of what an evanescent substance are our emotions made.

Like the painting of a sorrow, A face without a heart.

Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

Wenn eine Frau ihre Fehler nicht charmant begehen kann, ist sie nichts als ein Weib.

Dünyan?n en güçlü insan? bile olsan, sevdiÄŸine kar?? kaybedersin.

he loathed his own beauty, and flinging the mirror on the floor, crushed it into silver splinters beneath his heel. It was his beauty that had ruined him, his beauty and the youth that he had prayed for. But for those two things, his life might have been free from stain. His beauty had been to him but a mask, his youth but a mockery. What was youth at best? A green, an unripe time, a time of shallow moods, and sickly thoughts. Why had he worn its livery? Youth had spoiled him.

He gives me good advice...People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.

A misanthrope I can understand—a womanthrope, never!

And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Sin is the only color- element left in modern life.