Quotes from Oscar Wilde

El vicio supremo es la superficialidad.

Don't talk about horrid subjects. If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened.

So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates. He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets...

Hiç evlenme, Dorian. Erkek, yorgun düÅŸtüÄŸü için evlenir, kad?n merak duyduÄŸu için. Ä°kisi de hayal k?r?kl???na uÄŸrarlar.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us.

Truth in art is not any correspondence between the essential idea and the accidental existence; it is not the resemblance of shape to shadow, or of the form mirrored in the crystal to the form itself; it is no echo coming from a hollow hill anymore than it is a silver well of water in the valley that shows the moon to the moon and Narcissus to Narcissus.

However, I don't propose to discuss politics, sociology, or metaphysics with you. I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Ludzie, którzy kochajÄ… tylko jeden raz w ?yciu sÄ… pÅ'ytcy. To, co nazywajÄ… lojalnoÅ›ciÄ… i wiernoÅ›ciÄ…, ja nazywam bezwÅ'adem przyzwyczajeniem albo brakiem wyobra?ni. Wierno?? jest w ?yciu emocjonalnym tym samym, czym spójno?? w ?yciu intelektu - przyznaniem siÄ™ do pora?ki.

an ex-tragedy queen named Miss Glynn, who, having no visible external ears, reared a head like a turnip.

You will see the girl to whom I am going to give all my life, to whom I have given everything that is good in me.

There was a rustle of chirruping sparrows in the green lacquer leaves of the ivy, and the blue cloud-shadows chased themselves across the grass like swallows.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age.  London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.  Lady Dumbleton is an instance in point.  To my own knowledge she has been thirty-five ever since she arrived at the age of forty, which was many years ago now. 

I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

Wierno??! (...) Jest w niej pragnienie posiadania. Wiele rzeczy wyrzuciliby?my, gdyby nie obawa, ?e inni mog? j? podnie??.

Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry languidly.

Kiedy si? zakochamy, zawsze najpierw oszukujemy siebie, a na koniec nieodmiennie zwodzimy innych. To w?a?nie ?wiat nazywa romansem.

possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses one for asking any question--simple curiosity. I have a theory that it is always the women who propose

And in this it is right, for the meaning of any beautiful created thing is, at least, as much in the soul of him who looks at it as it was in his soul who wrought it. Nay, it is rather the beholder who lends to the beautiful thing its myriad meanings, and makes it marvellous for us, and sets it in some new relation to the age, so that it becomes a vital portion of our lives and a symbol of what we pray for, or perhaps of what, having prayed for, we fear that we may receive.

I like men who have a future and women who have a past, he answered.

W duszy jest zwierzÄ™co??, a ciaÅ'o miewa chwile uduchowienia. ZmysÅ'y mogÄ… uszlachetni?,a intelekt sta? siÄ™ ?ródÅ'em zepsucia. Któ? mo?e stwierdzi?, gdzie siÄ™ koÅ"czy bodziec fizyczny, a zaczyna psychiczny impuls.

Un matrimonio dovrebbe basarsi sulla reciproca incomprensione.

LORD WINDERMERE: Well, that is no business of yours, is it, Cecil? CECIL GRAHAM: None! That is why it interests me. My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.

want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.