Quotes from Oscar Wilde

La experiencia no tiene ningún valor ético. Es simplemente el nombre que los hombres dan a sus errores

But I didn't say he was married. I said he was engaged to be married. There is a great difference. I have a distinct remembrance of being married, but I have no recollection at all of being engaged. I am inclined to think that I never was engaged.

The trouble with Marxism is that it takes up too many evenings.

quand elle est en grande toilette, on dirait l'édition de luxe d'un mauvais roman français.

I wrote when I did not know life. Now that I know life, I have no more to write.

we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. With

Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

Sumienie i tchórzostwo to to samo. Sumienie to po prostu nazwa firmowa. Nic wiÄ™cej.

Yes, he continued, that is one of the great secrets of life. Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

It is said that all martyrdoms seemed mean to the looker-on.

Un homme peut être heureux avec n'importe quelle femme, à condition de ne pas l'aimer.

we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities;

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If

warto?? idei w ?aden sposób nie zale?y od szczeroÅ›ci tego, kto jÄ… gÅ'osi. Wprost przeciwnie; istnieje du?e prawdopodobieÅ"stwo, ?e im bardziej jest nieszczery, tym bardziej stanowi ona czysty wytwór jego intelektu, nieska?ony jego osobistymi potrzebami, pragnieniami czy przesÄ…dami.

bardziej lubi? ludzi ni? zasady, a ponad wszystko lubi? ludzi bez ?adnych zasad.

All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of.

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it. Women

I only knew that I had seen perfection face to face, and that the world had become wonderful to my eyes-- to wonderful, perhaps, for in such mad worships there is peril, the peril of losing them, no less than the peril of keeping them...

A we wszystkich romansach najgorsze jest to, ?e cz?owiek wychodzi z nich pozbawiony wszelkiego romantyzmu.

Still, I am conscious now that behind all this beauty, satisfying though it may be, there is some spirit hidden of which the painted forms and shapes are but modes of manifestation, and it is with this spirit that I desire to become in harmony. I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things.

Todo delito es vulgar, de la misma manera que todo lo vulgar es delito.

Lord Henry, you are quite delightful and dreadfully demoralizing.