Quotes from Oscar Wilde

Every day. I couldn't be happy if I didn't see him every day. He is absolutely necessary to me.

Dale una máscara a un hombre y te dirá la verdad

There is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community

Love is a more wonderful thing than art.' 'They are both simply forms of imitation,' remarked Lord Henry.

The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts.

He did not wring his hands, as do Those witless men who dare To try to rear the changeling Hope In the cave of black Despair.

The moral life of man forms part of the subject matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.

Jack: [Slowly and hesitatingly] "Gwendolen–Cecily–it is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth. It is the first time in my life that I have ever been reduced to such a painful position, and I am really quite inexperienced in doing anything of the kind.

One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders.

I am getting rather astonishing in my Italian conversation. I believe I talk a mixture of Dante and the worst modern slang.

Genius is born, not paid.

And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life.

He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvelous and evil so full of subtlety.

Saat üçü vurdu, dördü vurdu, dört buçuÄŸu vurdu ama o yerinden k?m?ldamad?. Hayat?n örgüsü içindeki parlak renkli lifleri bir araya toplamaya, onlarla bir örüntü dokumaya çal???yordu; içinde dolaÅŸt???, tutkunun kan rengi labirentinde yolunu bulmaya çal???yordu.

More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

Put out the torches! Hide the moon! Hide the stars! Let us hide ourselves in our palace, Herodias. I begin to be afraid.

I have no terror of death. It is the coming of death that terrifies me. Its monstrous wings seem to wheel in the leaden air around me.

Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.

In life there is really no great or small thing. All things are of equal value and of equal size.

The weather still continues charming.

Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.

Don't speak. Let me think, or, rather, let me try not to think.

The public is largely influenced by the look of a book. So are we all. It is the only artistic thing about the public.