Quotes from Oscar Wilde

Good heavens!  Is marriage so demoralizing as that? Lane.  I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir.  I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present.  I have only been married once.  That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person. Algernon.

By? dobrym, to znaczy by? w harmonii z samym sob?. Dysonans to w tym przypadku przymus pozostania w harmonii z innymi.

I left her in the forest of Arden; I shall find her in an orchard in Verona.

A book is either nicely written or it's badly written. That's it.

he replied, touching the thin stem of his glass with his pale, fine-pointed fingers. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with

In the cave of black Despair: He only looked upon the sun, And drank the morning air.

I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses one for asking any question—simply curiosity. I have a theory that it is always the women who propose to us, and not we who propose to the women. Except, of course, in middle-class life. But then the middle classes are not modern.

Nay! for perchance that poppy-crownèd god Is like the watcher by a sick man's bed Who talks of sleep but gives it not; his rod Hath lost its virtue, and, when all is said, Death is too rude, too obvious a key To solve one single secret in a life's philosophy. And

We should remember that all the arts are fine arts and all the arts decorative arts.

He had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

Es una triste verdad, pero hemos perdido la capacidad de dar nombres bonitos a las cosas. Los nombres lo son todo.

curar el alma por medio de los sentidos, y los sentidos con el alma.

It is tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man,' says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people.

I am dazed with a dull sense of pain. I had fed on hope, and now anguish, grown hungry, feeds her fill on me as though she had been starved of her proper appetite.

The waving of crooked, false-jeweled fingers gave grotesqueness to the words.

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder. As for the aged, I always contradict the aged. I do it on principle. If you ask them their opinion on something that happened yesterday, they solemnly give you the opinions current in 1820, when people wore high stocks, believed in everything, and knew absolutely nothing.

Más de la mitad de la cultura moderna depende de lo que no debería leerse

And I will sing how sad Proserpina Unto a grave and gloomy Lord was wed, And lure the silver-breasted Helena Back from the lotus meadows of the dead, So shalt thou see that awful loveliness For which two mighty Hosts met fearfully in war's abyss! And

Bu gece günceme yazaca??m. Neyi? AteÅŸten eli yanan çocuÄŸun ateÅŸi sevdiÄŸini.

Even a colour-sense is more important, in the development of the individual, than a sense of right and wrong. Aesthetics, in fact, are to Ethics in the sphere of conscious civilisation, what, in the sphere of the external world, sexual is to natural selection. Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sexual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it progress, and variety and change.

Humanity takes itself too seriously.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others.

Some one has killed herself for love of you. I wish that I had ever had such an experience.