Y la belleza es una forma de genio más elevada, en verdad, que el genio; no tiene necesidad de explicación. La belleza es la maravilla de las maravillas, únicamente la gente limitada no juzga por las apariencias, el verdadero misterio del mundo es el visible, no el invisible. Viva la vida maravillosa que tiene en usted, busque siempre nuevas sensaciones, que no lo asuste nada… Todos nos convertimos en horrorosos polichinelas alucinados por el recuerdo de las pasiones que nos atemorizan y de las tentaciones a las que no tuvimos el valor de ceder. A usted el mundo le pertenece, no hay nada que no pueda hacer con su personalidad y su gracia. No hemos sido enviados al mundo para pregonar nuestros prejuicios morales, yo, por ejemplo, no hago nunca el menor caso de lo que dice la gente vulgar, ni intervengo jamás en lo que hace la gente encantadora
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Related la admiración por el Padre, símbolo de lo cerrado y agresivo, capaz de chingar y abrir, se transpa... OCTAVIO PAZ El peor tipo de llanto no era el tipo que todos podían ver, los lamentos en las esquinas, el desgar... KATIE MCGARRY hay muchas cosas que le dan sentido a la vida en las que podríamos encontrar la felicidad que tanto... ED HERNANDEZ Pongámonos de acuerdo en qué es la igualdad, pues si la libertad es la cima, la igualdad es la bas... VICTOR HUGO en realidad no importa que no esperemos nada de la vida, sino que la vida espere algo de nosotros. D... VIKTOR E. FRANKL Así, la suerte de la mujer y la del socialismo están íntimamente ligadas, como se ve también SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR De lo que hemos dicho se desprende que la tarea del poeta es describir no lo que ha acontecido,... ARISTOTLE — ¿Cómo puedes romper una promesa y quedarte tan campante? — A veces la gente no es consc... JOHN GREEN Una de las mejores razones, si no hubiera otra, para la abolición del dinero, es precisamente que s... EDWARD BELLAMY - ¿Sabe que es lo peor de todo? Lo miré. No supe qué decir. - Que la voy olvidando. EDUARDO SACHERI Los amantes y los locos tienen desbocado el seso, y son dados a forjar fantasías que abarcan más d... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Me pregunto si la gente se da cuenta de lo pequeño y cerrado que es el mundo en el que vivimos. Pod... MARIAM PARRA Pero el sufrimiento pasa. Si la vida, que es todo, pasa, por qué no han de pasar el amor y el dolor... FERNANDO SAVATER Me encantaría creer en un mundo invisible. Eso destruiría todo el sufrimiento y la presión del mu... CHUCK PALAHNIUK Que haya otros que estén en desacuerdo con nosotros (que no tomen en cuenta lo que hacemos sino lo ... ZYGMUNT BAUMAN Es una mera ficción eso de que no existe un puente de unión entre una y otra gente, y que todos vi... HERMANN HESSE La historia no ha cambiado. Hace mil anos ellos eran los duenos del mundo. Hoy en dia lo siguen sien... ANTONIO GUADARRAMA La voluntad, el deseo de vivir, es tan fuerte en el animal como en el hombre. En el hombre es mayor ... PíO BAROJA El mundo no se divide en gente buena y mala; todos tenemos luz y oscuridad dentro de nosotros, lo qu... J.K. ROWLING En cierto sentido, la visión del mundo que tenía el Partido se imponía con éxito a gente incapaz... GEORGE ORWELL Que significa 'amar'? Durante anios he pensado que significa conocer a la otra persona..., conocerla... SáNDOR MáRAI Siempre hay un momento, justo antes de empezar a leer, en el que el corazón me da un vuelco y me pr... NICHOLAS SPARKS Creo que si alguna vez tengo hijos y están disgustados, no les diré que la gente se muere de hambr... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Esa pareja equilibrada no es una utopía ; existen tales parejas, a veces incluso en el mismo marco ... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR Mira a todos a tu alrededor y ve lo que hemos hecho de nosotros y de eso considerado como victoria n... CLARICE LISPECTOR —¿Nunca has parado el mundo? —¿Qué es parar el mundo? —Parar el mundo es decidir ... ALBERT ESPINOSA A veces se preguntaba si los instintos del ser humano habían cambiado en ese tiempo, y siempre lleg... NICHOLAS SPARKS Que yo sepa, lo único que no da resaca y que disipa momentáneamente la muerte —tambié... MILENA BUSQUETS Pero el amor puede transformar en belleza y dignidad cosas bajas y viles, porque no ve con los ojos,... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Los Padres son dueños de todo y la gente no posée nada; es la obra maestra de la razón y la justi... VOLTAIRE Las mujeres contribuyen más de la mitad de la nación y no es posible hacer labor legislativa seria... CLARA CAMPOAMOR La labor más importante del ser humano es buscar la moralidad en sus actos. Es de lo que depende nu... ALBERT EINSTEIN El corazón de las personas es como un pozo muy profundo. Nadie sabe lo que hay en el fondo. Sólo p... HARUKI MURAKAMI Las crudas realidades de las personas, los menos favorecidos, no deberíamos sentir esas realidades ... PATRICIA VELáSQUEZ porque el camino recto del amor, ya se guíe por sí mismo, ya sea guiado por otro, es comenzar por ... PLATO …debes darte cuenta de que nos hemos pasado la vida desde pequeños respondiendo a la pregunta ‘... ALBERT ESPINOSA Otra vez tambores de guerra, y son siempre los mismos quienes los percuten. Decía Roger Garaudy que... FERNANDO SáNCHEZ DRAGó El pueblo antiguo que deseaba tener una clara armonía moral en el mundo, ordenaba primero su vida n... CONFUCIUS Hoy ya sé que todo nos espía, que nada pasa inadvertido y que aun el papal pintado de las paredes ... GüNTER GRASS —Estoy enamorado de ti, y no me apetece privarme del sencillo placer de decir la verdad. Estoy ena... JOHN GREEN La mayoría de nosotros encuentra muy difícil desear el cielo, salvo si esto significa volver a enc... C.S. LEWIS Óscar también opina que hacer el amor es la mejor manera de empezar el día. Yo por MILENA BUSQUETS Apenas llegado a Sharax, el fatigado emperador había ido a sentarse a la orilla del mar, frente a l... MARGUERITE YOURCENAR Quizas te sorprenda que me acuerde con tanto detalle de ese dia, de esas horas (...) A mi tambien me... SáNDOR MáRAI No tenían tiempo para pensar en el futuro. Pero luego las expectativas de vida empezaron a aumentar... JOHN GREEN Quiero que [mi hijo] conozca el secreto de la felicidad, algo tan sencillo que da la impresión de q... JAMES RHODES Toro: Hay gente que no sabe lo que es el amor. Pescuezo: ¿Qué es el amor? Toro: …….e... DAVID COTOS Pero en los casos en los que no ha sido costumbre sino el más íntimo impulso el que nos ha llevado... HERMANN HESSE Aspiro a no depender de nadie, ni del hombre que adoro. No quiero ser su manceba, tipo innoble, la h... BENITO PéREZ GALDóS En la vida no todo es seguridad. Es ser capaces de recoger los pedazos después de que todo haya pas... SHERRILYN KENYON El paraguas individual es la imágen favorita de mi padre cuando quiere caracterizar el tiempo en qu... EDWARD BELLAMY Le rodeó la cintura con un brazo, con un nudo en la garganta. —¿De veras? —De veras.... NALINI SINGH Entro Kriztina y aquel salon oscuro se inundo de luz. No solamente irradiaba juventud, no. Irradiaba... SáNDOR MáRAI me habia quedado tambien casi por completo sin contactos con quienes anteriormente mehabia permitido... THOMAS BERNHARD —Si yo bajara en busca de tu alma, ni todos los querubines negros juntos podrían apartarme de ti.... SYLVAIN REYNARD Es la hora, amor mío, de apartar esta rosa sombría, cerrar las estrellas, enterrar la ceniza en la... PABLO NERUDA Y, entonces, en ese instante que tan solo dura un segundo, el cerebro se encarga de abrir la cerradu... AUDREY DRY La dicha es una cosa tan rara en este mundo, que el hombre no ha pensado en inventar palabras para e... THéOPHILE GAUTIER Puedo decirte que el final de una vida es la suma del amor que fue vivido en ella; y estar en su fin... CASSANDRA CLARE Si os he referido estos detalles acerca del asteroide B 612 y si os he confiado su número es por la... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Sabrás que no te amo y que te amo puesto que de dos modos es la vida, la palabra es un al... PABLO NERUDA Lo que quiero conseguir del curso en la universidad es algún conocimiento sobre la mejor manera de ... L.M. MONTGOMERY [...]sabía que el organismo producía tres tipos de lágrimas, cada una con su propia composición ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Todo su cuerpo se estremeció, de la forma en que siempre lo hacía cuando la besaba. Nunca se aburr... CASSANDRA CLARE —Qué va. —Hablaba en serio. Jess lo supo por su mirada—. Toda esa historia de Jesús es realm... KATHERINE PATERSON La felicidad la pueden experimentar en toda su intensidad sólo los que han vivido grandes altibajos... FRANCESC MIRALLES De ahí que la amistad aparezca representada por pactos de sangre, lealtades eternas e incluso mitif... DAVID TRUEBA -Hay tres preguntas que toda mujer debe ser capaz de responder afirmativamente antes de comprometers... COLLEEN HOOVER Doña Lorena, una bibliotecaria sabia que rondaba por allí por las tardes, siempre me preparaba una... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN RECUERDE LA FLOR DE LOTO Las grandes personas siempre se burlaban de los que se sie... SUZY KASSEM Hay un minuto en que se agota la siesta. Hasta la secreta, recóndita, minúscula actividad de los i... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Todos eran efímeros y transitorios, y a la vuelta de cien años no quedaría rastro de ellos sobre ... MIGUEL DELIBES -Todo lo que he hecho en este año de la expiación ha terminado por dejar atrás sólo cenizas. As�... PATRICK GLEASON Si hay algo que no tolero es a esa gente que, cansada de golpear a las puertas del sistema sin logra... RODRIGO FRESáN ¿Quiere que vaya a la iglesia y me confiese? ¿Cree que los detectives nos rebajamos a hablar con s... PABLO DE SANTIS Pero la guerra… Son los lápices rojos, las reglas y los compases, los mapas…. Motoristas, órde... ANGEL MARIA DE LERA Ella, sin duda, era la encarnación de la belleza que encontraba en la Tierra. Tenía que pasar por ... ANAGABY ARRIETA A medida que transcurría el tiempo, se afirmaba en la certeza de que el mundo y la vida eran más f... ARTURO PéREZ-REVERTE Rue,, la niña que, cuando le preguntas por lo que mas ama en el mundo, contesta que la musica, nada... SUZANNE COLLINS Uno siempre responde con su vida entera a las preguntas mas importantes. No importa lo que diga, no ... SáNDOR MáRAI ¿Ven la manera en que está el sol ahora, con las sombras largas y ese tipo de luz suave, brillante... JOHN GREEN Cuando vas por las calles nadie te reconoce. Nadie ve la corona de cristal, nadie mira PABLO NERUDA La publicidad es el único trabajo en el que te pagan por hacer las cosas peor de lo que puedes hace... FRéDéRIC BEIGBEDER A veces nos vamos para tratar de encontrarnos. Al hacernos mayores nos perdemos. No sabemos qué hac... ÁNGELA BECERRA Con tal disposición y determinación, ¡qué país es éste para el viajero, donde la más mísera ... WASHINGTON IRVING Y de repente es cómo si no existiera nadie más en el mundo que estas dos personas que atraviesan e... SUZANNE COLLINS Desde temprana edad eran conscientes del escaso valor que el mundo daba a los libros, de manera que ... JEFFREY EUGENIDES Mi abuela tenía una teoría muy interesante; decía que todos nacemos con una caja de fósforos ade... LAURA ESQUIVEL Oremos por un último aterrizaje sobre el globo que nos vio nacer. Fijemos nuestros ojos e... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Yo sé que tiene alas. Que por las noches sueña en alta voz la brisa de plata de sus... RAFAEL ALBERTI Gran parte de una desgracia cualquiera consiste, por así decirlo, en la sombra de la desgracia, en ... C.S. LEWIS pero el amor puede transformar en belleza y dignidad lo que es grosero, deforme y vulgar. El amor ve... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Como ve, todos tenemos en nuestro interior los elementos necesarios para producir fósforo. Es más,... LAURA ESQUIVEL Para que los pasos no me lloren, para que las palabras no me sangren: canto. OTTO RENé CASTILLO No puedo hablar de nuestra historia de amor, así que hablaré de matemáticas. No soy matemática, ... JOHN GREEN Lo que no resulta explicable hoy, en una situación en una inferioridad política de las mujeres se ... PAUL B. PRECIADO Quizás yo no soy muy inteligente. Pertenezco al pueblo. Pero ¿no es el pueblo el que hace funciona... HARUKI MURAKAMI Porque no vivo ni en mi pasado ni en mi futuro. Tengo sólo el presente, y él es el que me interesa... PAULO COELHO Es mucho más fácil no saber las cosas algunas veces. Las cosas cambian. Los amigos se van. Y la vi... STEPHEN CHBOSKY El pasado siempre tiene importancia. No hay que olvidar las cosas que hiciste en el pasado, porque s... CASSANDRA CLARE
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Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,... OSCAR WILDE It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. OSCAR WILDE The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. OSCAR WILDE We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. OSCAR WILDE I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. OSCAR WILDE Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. OSCAR WILDE The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation. OSCAR WILDE A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her. OSCAR WILDE True friends stab you in the front. OSCAR WILDE Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities. OSCAR WILDE It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. OSCAR WILDE Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. OSCAR WILDE It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. OSCAR WILDE The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself. OSCAR WILDE Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing. OSCAR WILDE Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. OSCAR WILDE I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give... OSCAR WILDE In its primary aspect, a painting has no more spiritual message than an exquisite fragment of Veneti... OSCAR WILDE Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals. OSCAR WILDE Writing bores me so. OSCAR WILDE There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies. OSCAR WILDE Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty. OSCAR WILDE Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to ... OSCAR WILDE 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's... OSCAR WILDE There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose. OSCAR WILDE In married life three is company and two none. OSCAR WILDE I would have a workshop attached to every school, and one hour a day given up to the teaching of sim... OSCAR WILDE Charity creates a multitude of sins. OSCAR WILDE What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. OSCAR WILDE If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. OSCAR WILDE Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away. OSCAR WILDE The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is ... OSCAR WILDE No man is rich enough to buy back his past. OSCAR WILDE There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. OSCAR WILDE Everything popular is wrong. OSCAR WILDE To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. OSCAR WILDE Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is ... OSCAR WILDE The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thin... OSCAR WILDE We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows th... OSCAR WILDE The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him. OSCAR WILDE Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by... OSCAR WILDE Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments. OSCAR WILDE Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look som... OSCAR WILDE When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her. OSCAR WILDE There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows... OSCAR WILDE One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually u... OSCAR WILDE The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means. OSCAR WILDE This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again. OSCAR WILDE From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point... OSCAR WILDE His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except ... OSCAR WILDE An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work o... OSCAR WILDE Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succ... 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OSCAR WILDE They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins. OSCAR WILDE On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American... OSCAR WILDE Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed. OSCAR WILDE Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, ... OSCAR WILDE London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thorou... OSCAR WILDE Once can survive everything nowadays, except death. OSCAR WILDE For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die. OSCAR WILDE I am dying beyond my means. OSCAR WILDE To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intel... OSCAR WILDE The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young. OSCAR WILDE I delight in men over seventy. 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OSCAR WILDE None of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our mistakes. OSCAR WILDE A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes. OSCAR WILDE The basis for optimism is sheer terror. OSCAR WILDE A pessimist is an optimist with experience OSCAR WILDE Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life. OSCAR WILDE The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. -Oscar Wilde. OSCAR WILDE Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexe... OSCAR WILDE What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere? OSCAR WILDE The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so... OSCAR WILDE The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should g... OSCAR WILDE Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our ... OSCAR WILDE Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. OSCAR WILDE The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-?-brac shop, all... OSCAR WILDE Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. OSCAR WILDE It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everythi... OSCAR WILDE I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability. OSCAR WILDE In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby ... OSCAR WILDE He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigram on his tombstone. OSCAR WILDE In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin. OSCAR WILDE As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. 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OSCAR WILDE In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefi... OSCAR WILDE Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lum... OSCAR WILDE Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself. OSCAR WILDE There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and he... OSCAR WILDE The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, wo... OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. OSCAR WILDE Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are re... OSCAR WILDE To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be r... OSCAR WILDE Nothing succeeds like success. 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But they are quite... OSCAR WILDE No great artist ever sees things as they really are, if he did he would cease to be an artist. OSCAR WILDE Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice... OSCAR WILDE Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all. OSCAR WILDE All art is quite useless. OSCAR WILDE It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone. OSCAR WILDE The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. OSCAR WILDE There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. ... OSCAR WILDE When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old,... OSCAR WILDE There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the... OSCAR WILDE The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, educ... OSCAR WILDE Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite en... OSCAR WILDE In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the hom... OSCAR WILDE The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach. OSCAR WILDE I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated serious... OSCAR WILDE Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes t... OSCAR WILDE Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others. OSCAR WILDE As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really d... OSCAR WILDE Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so oc... OSCAR WILDE Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you wi... OSCAR WILDE The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. OSCAR WILDE There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. OSCAR WILDE LORD GORING: I am glad you have called. I am going to give you some good advice. MRS. CHEVELEY... OSCAR WILDE LORD GORING: My father told me to go to bed an hour ago. I don't see why I shouldn't give you ... OSCAR WILDE A poet can survive anything but a misprint. OSCAR WILDE The best way to make children good is to make them happy. OSCAR WILDE Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgi... OSCAR WILDE Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old-fashioned respect fo... OSCAR WILDE Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic. OSCAR WILDE As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. OSCAR WILDE People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about s... OSCAR WILDE The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is... OSCAR WILDE As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utteranc... OSCAR WILDE The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generatio... OSCAR WILDE That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating t... OSCAR WILDE Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic -- a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beau... OSCAR WILDE I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across ... Please do not shoot t... OSCAR WILDE I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments. OSCAR WILDE Talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your... OSCAR WILDE Hatred is blind, as well as love. OSCAR WILDE Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go OSCAR WILDE It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then mere... OSCAR WILDE Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and lit... OSCAR WILDE Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteent... OSCAR WILDE No publisher should ever express an opinion on the value of what he publishes. That is a matter enti... OSCAR WILDE The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of... OSCAR WILDE The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything, and the young know everything. OSCAR WILDE I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that... OSCAR WILDE And beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is ... OSCAR WILDE It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it OSCAR WILDE Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem ne... OSCAR WILDE Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. OSCAR WILDE Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's ow... OSCAR WILDE Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat. OSCAR WILDE To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is... OSCAR WILDE Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. OSCAR WILDE Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is... OSCAR WILDE The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of ... OSCAR WILDE And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness... OSCAR WILDE It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal. OSCAR WILDE