Quotes from Oscar Wilde

always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

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. That

I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray. Then—but I don't know how to explain it to you. Something seemed to tell me that I was on the verge of a terrible crisis in my life. I had a strange feeling that fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows

Amar es superarse

I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience. I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine.

They glided past, they glided fast, Like travellers through a mist: They mocked the moon in a rigadoon Of delicate turn and twist, And with formal pace and loathsome grace The phantoms kept their tryst

To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.

Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing. . . 

At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been. Art is a symbol, because man is a symbol.

Cada impresión producida crea un enemigo. Para ser popular hay que ser una mediocridad

Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.

making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.

things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression

The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self.

The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs;

What a curious shape you are!  May I ask were you born like that, or is it the result of an accident?" "It

An admirable idea! Mr. Worthing, there is just one question I would like to be permitted to put to you. Where is your brother Ernest? We are both engaged to be married to your brother Ernest, so it is a matter of some importance to us to know where your brother Ernest is at present.

Creo que el arte oculta al artista más que lo descubre

My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree.

I did not want any external influence in my life. You know how independent I am by nature. I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.

Her hair clustered around her face like dark leaves round a pale rose.

Cuando nos confesamos de algo, pensamos que nadie más tiene derecho a culparnos. Es la confesión, no el sacerdote, lo que nos absuelve

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.