Quotes from Oscar Wilde

Kiedy tak siedzieliÅ›my obok siebie, ujrzaÅ'em w jej oczach coÅ›, czego nigdy wczeÅ›niej nie widziaÅ'em. Moje usta zbli?yÅ'y siÄ™ do jej ust. ZaczÄ™liÅ›my siÄ™ caÅ'owa?. Nie potrafiÄ™ wam opisa?, co wtedy czuÅ'em ZdawaÅ'o mi siÄ™, jakby caÅ'e moje ?ycie zawÄ™ziÅ'o siÄ™ do jednej doskonaÅ'ej chwili, wypeÅ'nionej radoÅ›ciÄ… w barwie ró?.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

Complex people waste half their strength in trying to conceal what they do. Is it any wonder they should always come to grief?

Manners before morals!

Kiedy jeste?my szcz??liwi, zawsze jeste?my dobrzy, ale kiedy jeste?my dobrzy, nie zawsze jeste?my szcz??liwi.

The great events of the world take place in the Brain. It is in the Brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

You have crushed the grapes against your palate. Nothing has been hidden from you. And it has all been to you no more than the sound of music. It has not marred you.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building.

Bugünlerde herkes her ÅŸeyin fiyat?n? biliyor, fakat hiçbir ÅŸeyin deÄŸerini bilmiyorlar.

The Noblest form of Affection

I was obliged to call on dear Lady Harbury.  I hadn't been there since her poor husband's death.  I never saw a woman so altered; she looks quite twenty years younger. 

Kendini suçlaman?n rahatlat?c? bir yan? vard?. Kendimizi suçlad???m?zda baÅŸka hiç kimsenin bizi suçlamaya hakk? olmaz. Rahip deÄŸil ancak itiraf?n kendisidir bizi ba???layan.

Everyone is born a king; some people die in exile

I am glad you don't think I am heartless. I am nothing of the kind. I know I am not. And yet I must admit that this thing that has happened does not affect me as it should. It seems to me to be simply like a wonderful ending to a wonderful play. It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have not been wounded.

Was verabscheuenswerter sei, die Zeichen der Sünde oder die des Alter.

Seni dünyadaki her ÅŸeyden daha çok seviyorum diye böyle zalim davranma bana.

it is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. 

Your days are your sonnets.

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Fancisco.

No married man is ever attractive except to his wife.

But you will tell me this is an inartistic age, and we are an inartistic people, and the artist suffers much in this nineteenth century of ours. Of course he does. I, of all men, am not going to deny that. But remember that there has never been an artistic age, or an artistic people since the beginning of the world. The artist has always been, and will always be, an exquisite exception.

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love, but there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.