Selected quotes · 58
№ 01
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
Oscar WildeHappiness
№ 02
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Oscar WildeAction
№ 03
“Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.”
Oscar WildeSuccess
№ 04
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
Oscar WildeLove
№ 05
“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
Oscar WildeLove
№ 06
“Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.”
Oscar WildeFriendship
№ 07
“When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself, one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls romance.”
Oscar WildeAction
№ 08
“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
Oscar WildeFreedom
№ 09
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Oscar WildeWisdom
№ 10
“With freedom, flowers, books, and the moon, who could not be perfectly happy?”
Oscar WildeFreedom
№ 11
“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
Oscar WildeCreativity
№ 12
“No one is without flaws but we are still worthy of love.”
Oscar WildeJustice
№ 13
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar WildeLife
№ 14
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Oscar WildeHumility
№ 15
“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”
Oscar WildeLove
№ 16
“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”
Oscar WildeLove
№ 17
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
Oscar WildeHappiness
№ 18
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar WildeWisdom
№ 19
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Oscar WildeTime
№ 20
“The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.”
Oscar WildeWisdom
№ 21
“As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.”
Oscar WildeFreedom
№ 22
“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”
Oscar WildeFriendship
№ 23
“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.”
Oscar WildeAction
№ 24
“Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.”
Oscar WildeFriendship
№ 25
“No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.”
Oscar WildeGrowth
№ 26
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.”
Oscar WildeSuccess
№ 27
“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”
Oscar WildeWisdom
№ 28
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
Oscar WildeCreativity
№ 29
“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.”
Oscar WildeMindset
№ 30
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
Oscar WildeWisdom
№ 31
“A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.”
Oscar WildeTime
№ 32
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Oscar WildeJustice
№ 33
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”
Oscar WildeCreativity
№ 34
“When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.”
Oscar WildeLife
№ 35
“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.”
Oscar WildeCreativity
№ 36
“Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.”
Oscar WildeWisdom
№ 37
“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”
Oscar WildeCreativity
№ 38
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
Oscar WildeWisdom
№ 39
“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.”
Oscar WildeLife
№ 40
“Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.”
Oscar WildeAction
№ 41
“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
Oscar WildeFailure
№ 42
“There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.”
Oscar WildeTime
№ 43
“True friends stab you in the front.”
Oscar WildeFriendship
№ 44
“The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”
Oscar WildeCreativity
№ 45
“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”
Oscar WildeJustice
№ 46
“There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”
Oscar WildeLife
№ 47
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
Oscar WildeWisdom
№ 48
“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.”
Oscar WildeCreativity
№ 49
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar WildeWisdom
№ 50
“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
Oscar WildeTime
№ 51
“If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.”
Oscar WildeWisdom
№ 52
“The heart was made to be broken.”
Oscar WildeCreativity
№ 53
“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
Oscar WildeMindset
№ 54
“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”
Oscar WildeFreedom
№ 55
“Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.”
Oscar WildePhilosophy
№ 56
“There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
Oscar WildeLife
№ 57
“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.”
Oscar WildeFailure
№ 58
“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live. It is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”
Oscar WildeLife