Quotes from Oscar Wilde

It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly rational being.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.

I would suggest that we should appeal to Science to put us straight. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of Science is that it is not emotional.

Nunca des explicaciones, tus amigos no las necesitan y tus enemigos no las creen

everyone who disappears is said to be seen at San Francisco. It must be a delightful city, and possess all the attractions of the next world.

As he thought of it, a sharp pang of pain struck through him like a knife and made each delicate fibre of his nature quiver.

I know he likes me. Of course I flatter him dreadfully. I find a strange pleasure in saying things to him that I know I shall be sorry for having said.

Lo que tengo ante mí es mi pasado. He de conseguir mirarlo con otros ojos, hacer que el mundo lo mire con otros ojos, hacer que Dios lo mire con otros ojos. Eso no lo puedo conseguir soslayándolo, ni menospreciándolo, ni alabándolo, ni negándolo. Únicamente se puede hacer aceptándolo plenamente como una parte inevitable de la evolución de mi vida y mi carácter: inclinando la cabeza a todo lo que he sufrido.

Si yo hubiera leído todo esto en un libro, Henry, creo que me hubiera echado a llorar. Sin embargo, ahora que me ha ocurrido a mi realmente, parece demasiado asombroso para derramar lágrimas.

The one charm of the past is that it is in the past.

In the slanting beams that streamed through the open doorway the dust danced and was golden. The heavy scent of the roses seemed to brood over everything.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. Worlds

It is better not to be different from one's fellows. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world.

everywhere I turn my name is written on the rocks in lead.  For I have come, not from obscurity into the momentary notoriety of crime, but from a sort of eternity of fame to a sort of eternity of infamy, and sometimes seem to myself to have shown, if indeed it required showing, that between the famous and the infamous there is but one step, if as much as one.

Una grande passion es el privilegio de quienes no tienen nada que hacer.

Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.

Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian...I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does. I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.

I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything.

But then the only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.

Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. And Lord Henry struck a light on a dainty silver case and began to smoke a cigarette with a self-conscious and satisfied air, as if he had summed up the world in a phrase. There

The family as subversive of true socialistic and communal unity is to be annihilated." Yes, President, I agree completely with Article 5. A family is a terrible incumbrance, especially when one is not married.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity