Quotes from Oscar Wilde

Se dice que los grandes acontecimientos del mundo tienen lugar en el cerebro. Es en el cerebro, y sólo en el cerebro, donde los grandes pecados del mundo tienen lugar también.

Do you mean to say you have had my cigarette case all this time?  I wish to goodness you had let me know.  I have been writing frantic letters to Scotland Yard about it.  I was very nearly offering a large reward. Algernon.  Well, I wish you would offer one.  I happen to be more than usually hard up.

El único camino para deshacerse de la tentación es ceder a ella

To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations. In

Oh, I love London Society! I think it has immensely improved. It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be.

There are terrible temptations that it requires strength--strength and courage--to yield to. To stake all one's life on one throw--whether the stake be power or pleasure I care not--there is no weakness in that. There is a horrible, a terrible, courage.

Les bonnes résolutions ne sont que d'inutiles efforts pour contrarier les lois scientifiques. Elles ont leur source dans notre vanité. Leur résultat est absolument nil. Elles nous donnent, de temps à autre, quelques-unes de ces riches et stériles émotions qui ne sont pas sans charme pour les âmes faibles. Voilà tout ce qu'on peut dire en leur faveur. Ce sont des chèques tirés sur une banque où l'on n'a pas de compte ouvert.

There Is Only One Thing In The World Worse Than Being Talked About, And That Is Not Being Talked About. – Oscar Wilde

High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt.

Les personnes qui m'ont adoré (...) se sont obstinées à vivre bien au-delà du terme de mon amour pour elles ou de leur amour pour moi.

The generation into which I was born was tedious.

Oh, women have become so highly educated, Jane, that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages. They apparently are getting remarkably rare.

ravelled skeins of glossy white silk, were drifting across the hollowed turquoise of the summer sky.

He wanted to escape from himself.

Sólo hay en el mundo una cosa peor que el que hablen de uno, y es que no hablen.

A coisa mais banal se torna deliciosa se a escondermos

Influir en una persona supone darle nuestra alma

It was useless. The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a living thing by pain, danced like some foul puppet on a stand and grinned through moving masks.

Comprendí que estaba ante alguien cuya simple personalidad era tan fascinante que, si me abandonaba a ella, absorbería mi naturaleza entera, mi alma y hasta mi propio arte.

Guarire lo spirito per mezzo dei sensi, e i sensi per mezzo dello spirito: questo è il segreto.

Le seul charme du passé, c'est qu'il est le passé. Mais les femmes ne savent jamais quand le rideau est tombé. Elles veulent toujours un sixième acte. C'est quand l'intérêt de la pièce est épuisé qu'elles demandent le plus fort qu'on la prolonge. Si on les écoutait, toute comédie aurait un dénouement tragique, et toute tragédie s'achèverait en farce.

Che cosa è un cinico? Un uomo che sa il prezzo di tutte le cose e il valore di nessuna.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.