Oscar Wilde

“The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.”

“It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.”

“There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie.”

“To define is to limit.”

“There is no sin except stupidity.”

“Truth is independent of facts always.”

“Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.”

“To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

“Discúlpeme, no le había reconocido: he cambiado mucho.”

“La rebeldía a los ojos de todo aquel que haya leído algo de historia, es la virtud original del hombre.”

“Para la mayoría de nosotros la verdadera vida es la vida que no llevamos.”

“Para tener buena salud lo haría todo menos tres cosas: hacer gimnasia, levantarme temprano y ser persona responsable.”

“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.”

“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”

“I love acting. It is so much more real than life.”

“A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young.”

“Hearts Live By Being Wounded”

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

“The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.”

“The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms.”

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”

“I know. In fact, I am never wrong.”

“I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.”

“I can resist anything except temptation.”

“The sky was pure opal now.”

“Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.”

“She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.”

“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”

“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.”

“Some things are too important to be taken seriously.”

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.”

“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.”

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”

“The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”

“Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.”

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”

“Consistency is the hallmark of the unimaginative.”

“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”

“Ambition is the last refuge of the failure”

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

“There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”

“And all the woe that moved him soThat he gave that bitter crythe wild regrets, and the bloody sweatsNone knew so well as I:For he who lives more lives than oneMore deaths than one must die.”

“Yet each man kills the thing he lovesBy each let this be heardSome do it with a bitter lookSome with a flattering wordThe coward does it with a kissThe brave man with a sword”

“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”