Seth Messenger : Oscar Wilde's quotes

Oscar Wilde said :

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Oscar Wilde
(Quotes)
#36430
Sometimes I think that God in creating man, somewhat overestimated his abilities.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36431
No map of the world is worthy of a look if the country of Utopia isn't there.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36432
Love a woman smart it is a pleasure to pederast.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36433
Young men want to be faithful and are not. The old would be unfaithful and cannot do more.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36434
The man believed that it was important to have ignorant that it is important to be.

Oscar Wilde
(L’Âme Humaine)


#36435
As long as he comes to the piano, I rely entirely on feeling. I don't trust that in life

Oscar Wilde
(L'Importance d'être constant)


#36436
The wicked are not always punished, nor the good rewarded.

Oscar Wilde
(Le portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36437
But what is the difference between literature and journalism?... Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That's all.

Oscar Wilde
(La Critique comme artiste)


#36438
There are many things that we'd like if we were not afraid that others can pick them up.

Oscar Wilde
(Le portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36439
What is a cynic? This is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Oscar Wilde
(L'Éventail de Lady Windermere)


#36440
The husband is always the last to suspect infidelity of his wife.

Oscar Wilde
(Teleny)


#36441
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love; infidelity is known tragedies.

Oscar Wilde
(Le portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36442
I am never in the aftermath I can do two days later.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36443
I'm dying as I lived, largely beyond my means.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36444
Losing a parent can be regarded as a misfortune. Losing two looks at negligence.

Oscar Wilde
(L’Importance d’être constant)


#36445
Moderation is a fatal thing. "Enough" is bad as a meal. "Too" is good as a feast.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36446
Public opinion is that where there is any ideas.

Oscar Wilde
(Quelques maximes pour l'instruction des personnes trop instruites)


#36447
All the bad poetry is born of sincere feelings.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36448
Remember that, while sharing the joy increases the scope on this earth, the sharing of pain does not diminish the sum.

Oscar Wilde
(L'Homme et son âme devant la société)


#36449
A politician is someone who addresses each topic open mouth.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36450
Do not hear or not to see the father is the only solid basis of family life.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36451
No crime is vulgar, but vulgarity is a crime. Vulgarity, what others are doing.

Oscar Wilde
(Formules et maximes à l'usage des jeunes gens)


#36452
Nowadays, we can survive anything, but death.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36453
Older people believe everything, adults doubt everything and the young know everything.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36454
I love the simple pleasures; they are the last refuge of the beings complexes.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36455
Live is the rarest thing. Most of the people just to exist.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36456
Silly love. It is far from being as useful as logic, because it proves nothing, he predicted events that never happen and believe in things that do not exist.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36457
Art is always more abstract than we imagine. The shape and color tell us about shape and color, and everything stops here.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36458
It is two of the most moving things in life: the ugliness that knows it, and the beauty that ignore.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36459
The biography adds a fear to death.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36460
When critics are not agreed between them, the artist is in agreement with himself.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36461
The caricature is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36462
To be really medieval, do not have a body. To be truly modern, do not have a soul. To be really Greek, be naked.

Oscar Wilde
(Formules et maximes)


#36463
The Democrat requires all citizens to take the start on the same line. The right man believes we should in some way. The man on the left would they all end up first.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36464
Should never listen to. Listening is a sign of indifference to your listeners.

Oscar Wilde
(Quelques maximes pour l'instruction des personnes trop instruites)


#36465
Selfishness is not living as we'd, but asking others to live as we ourselves want to live.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36466
To know the first thing about oneself, know everything about each other.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36467
Noble Almanac is the only book that a young Londoner should know from one end to the other, because it's the best work of fiction, the English have ever written.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36468
England and America have nothing now that sets apart them, except, of course, language.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36469
All exercises, homosexuality is the healthiest. Almost everything goes outdoors... and so have to walk!

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36470
The beauty is in the eye of one who looks.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36471
Absinthe brings oblivion, but gets paid in migraines. The first glass shows you things as you want them to, the second show you them as they are not; After the third one, you see them as they really are.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36472
Only idiots are brilliant at breakfast.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36473
Conscience and cowardice are one and the same thing. Consciousness is the name of the firm.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36474
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde
(L'éventail de lady Windermere)


#36475
The disease of any kind whether should not be encouraged.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36476
He must choose his enemies with great caution. I don't have a single that is a fool. They are all men to the powerful intellect and, accordingly, all like me.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36477
Nothing happened as much effect as a good platitude. This gives everyone a sense of kinship.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36478
Die for his theological convictions is the worst use a man can do with his life.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36479
Thought, in England, is not a contagious disease.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36480
Live is that there are more beautiful in the world, most people exist, that's all.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36481
Youth is an art.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36482
The only thing that politeness can make us lose it is, from time to time, a seat on a crowded bus.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36483
Being good, is to be in harmony with yourself. Discord, it is being forced to be in harmony with the others.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36484
We should always be slightly unlikely.

Oscar Wilde
(Aphorismes)


#36485
The aim of life is self-development. Achieve a perfect realization of its nature, that is why we are all here.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36486
In England, nothing is done to women, even not men.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36487
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What is the second, nobody has yet discovered it.

Oscar Wilde
(Formules et maximes à l'usage des jeunes gens)


#36488
Most of the women are so artificial that they have no sense of the art. Most of the men are so natural that they have no sense of the beautiful.

Oscar Wilde
(Quelques Maximes pour l'instruction des personnes trop instruites)


#36489
To love oneself is the beginning of a love story that will last a lifetime.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36490
Music lovers have this painful they always ask us to be completely silent at the moment where we would like to be absolutely deaf.

Oscar Wilde
(Aphorismes)


#36491
The only difference between a whim and an undying passion, it's that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Oscar Wilde
(Entretiens)


#36492
I'm still trying amaze me myself. It's the only thing that makes life worth living.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36493
In reviews, the fools questions that the wise cannot answer.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36494
Being the master of his whims is exquisite, being their slave is better still.

Oscar Wilde
(Entretiens)


#36495
The man is least himself when he is sincere, give him a mask and he will tell the truth.

Oscar Wilde
(Entretiens)


#36496
I have the simplest tastes of the world, I am the best.

Oscar Wilde
(Les Pensées)


#36497
Should look at things or people. Look in mirrors — Mirrors show us that masks.

Oscar Wilde
(Entretiens)


#36498
The world's a stage, but the play is badly distributed.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36499
There are many things that we'd like if we were not afraid that others pick them up.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36500
The logic is the last refuge of the people without imagination.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36501
Do not trust appearances. Many people have not as dumb air than they actually are.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36502
Those trying to lead the people can only do that by following the crowd.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36503
The social register is in England the greatest work of fiction.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36504
There are only superficial people who know each other.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36505
Those who are faithful know love as its triviality.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36506
You lose all sense of proportion when one enters this strange journalistic arena where the winner always the Shouter.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36507
Those who are unbelievers know the pleasures of love; those who are faithful know the tragedies.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36508
Behind every exquisite thing that existed was something tragic.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36509
I never travel without my memoirs. Always have something sensational to read on the train.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36510
It's always stupid to give advice, but to give good is absolutely fatal.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Mr W. H.)


#36511
Whenever cannibals are dying of hunger, God, in his infinite goodness, sends them a good chubby missionary.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36512
So I live above my income that in truth we, them and me, an entirely separate existence.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36513
Anything else, to be true, must become a religion.

Oscar Wilde
(De profundis)


#36514
Only the senses can heal the soul, just as the soul alone can cure the senses.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36515
It is very sad that there is so little useless information of our days.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36516
The philosophy teaches us to serenely endure the misfortunes of others.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36517
Only love can keep someone alive.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36518
Women were much more likely than men on this earth, many more things are prohibited.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36519
When poverty sneaks through the door, suddenly love wing in through the window.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36520
Like poetry, sculpture or painting, life has its precious masterpieces.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36521
The moral life of man is one of the topics that treats the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect instrument.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36522
Even joy, the memory has its bitterness, and the reminder of a pleasure is never without pain.

Oscar Wilde
(Le portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36523
All road ends at the same point: the disillusionment.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36524
The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect way.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36525
One can always recognize women who have full confidence in their husbands: they look so perfectly miserable.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36526
Twenty years of adventures are breaking down a woman in ruin; twenty years of marriage makes her something of a public monument.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36527
The progress is that the fulfilment of utopias.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36528
A truth ceases to be true when more than one person doesn't believe.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36529
I love be a comedian. It's so much more real than life.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36530
When you tell the truth, we're sure to be sooner or later discovered.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36531
The English public does nothing to a work of art until the day when he learns that the work in question is immoral.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36532
The ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Oscar Wilde
(Formules et maximes à l'usage des jeunes gens)


#36533
The way of paradoxes is the way of the real. Experience the reality, to see her on a tightrope.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36534
The youth of America is its oldest tradition: it lasted three hundred years.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36535
It is perfectly monstrous to see what people say behind our backs to things that are absolutely and entirely true.

Oscar Wilde
(Aphorismes)


#36536
Everything is proved, even what is true.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36537
English society, the talent more useful is yawning mouth closed.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36538
Skepticism is the beginning of faith.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36539
I hate arguments: they are always vulgar and sometimes compelling.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36540
The best way to behave with a woman, it is to make love to her if she is lovely, and to do it with another if she's ugly.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36541
Sin is the only note of color that exists in the modern world.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36542
That many times happens that believing experimenting on others we are experimenting on ourselves!

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36543
The critic is one who can transpose in some other way or bring in new elements, his impression of beauty.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36544
Real beauty ends where begins the intellectual expression. Intelligence is, by its nature, a kind of hypertrophy; She inevitably destroyed the harmony of a face.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36545
Erase the past, you can always: it is a matter of regret, disallowance, oblivion. But it does not avoid the future.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36546
We have the right to judge a man to the influence he has on his friends.

Oscar Wilde
(Le portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36547
That things we would put discarded if we were not afraid to see picked up by others.

Oscar Wilde
(Le portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36548
Humanity takes itself too seriously; This is the original sin of our world.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36549
The selfish is not the one who lives as he pleases, it is asking others to live as he pleases; the altruistic is the one who let others live their lives, without intervening.

Oscar Wilde
(Aphorismes)


#36550
Nowadays, most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover too late that there is that the mistakes we never regret.

Oscar Wilde
(Aphorismes)


#36551
Self-love is a romance that never ends.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36552
I like men who have a future and women who have a past.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36553
An expert, it is an ordinary man who gives his opinion... when he's not at home.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36554
Any grievance we have storytelling marriage, cannot be denied to be an experience.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36555
I live in terror of not being misunderstood.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36556
Smart woman, it lacks the indefinable charm of fragility.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36557
There is no pleasure to fool a husband who never see anything.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36558
The drama of the life of each woman, it's that she ends up looking like her mother, and the drama of man is that he never gets.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36559
The woman's story is the story of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known: the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is only tyranny that endures.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36560
He must put his genius into his life and his talent in his works.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36561
For an artist, he is also fatal to marry his model for a gourmet to marry his Cook: the first is private sessions pose and the second dinner.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36562
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36563
The value of an idea has nothing to do with the conviction of one who expresses it.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36564
When the right is not force, it is evil.

Oscar Wilde
(Intentions)


#36565
One thing we don't talk about never existed. It is the only expression that gives reality to the things.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36566
These are the passions that we ignore the origin that tyrannize us the most.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36567
Is insincerity such a terrible thing? It is simply a method that allows us to multiply our personalities.

Oscar Wilde
(Le portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36568
All we can do good advice is to pass. Anyone who receives it, it doesn't ever help.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36569
If the Caveman had known how to laugh, the course of history was changed.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36570
Beauty cannot be discussed, she rules by divine right. Does prince anyone who possesses it.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36571
Misfortunes, we can support; they come from the outside, they are accidents. But suffer from our own faults, that's especially bitter!

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36572
The cynicism is to know the price of everything, and the value of nothing!

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36573
God? We can ask the man to believe in the impossible, but not to the improbable.

Oscar Wilde
(Lettres 1875-1885)


#36574
To know the origin and the quality of a wine, it is not necessary to drink the whole barrel.

Oscar Wilde
(Aphorismes)


#36575
The man is all that we want, but not unreasonable.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36576
To address reproaches is a kind of luxury. It is the confession, and not the priest, that gives us absolution.

Oscar Wilde
(Aphorismes)


#36577
Egotism is not without attractions, even in real life. When people talk of others, they are usually boring.

Oscar Wilde
(Aphorismes)


#36578
What a man really has is what is in him. What is outside should not have the slightest importance.

Oscar Wilde
(Aphorismes)


#36579
A kind of way tie is the first serious step in life.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36580
These are not perfect beings who need love, these are the imperfect.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36581
The music puts the soul in harmony with everything that exists.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36582
Once we were in use to canonize our great men, today we vulgarisons them.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36583
The real tragedy of the poor, is that it cannot afford anything other than selflessness.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36584
As long as the war will be viewed as harmful, it will keep its fascination. When we'll watch it as vulgar, its popularity will cease.

Oscar Wilde
(Intentions)


#36585
A dreamer is one who can't find his way to moonlight and that, as punishment, sees the dawn before the other men.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36586
Self-sacrifice is something that should be condemned by the laws. It demoralizes people for which you sacrifice.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36587
Education is an admirable thing, but it is good to remember from time to time that nothing that is worthy of being known cannot be taught.

Oscar Wilde
(Intentions)


#36588
Being natural is also a pose and the most irritating I know.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36589
We are so prone to judge others because we fear for ourselves.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36590
Life is simply a bad quarter of an hour consisting of exquisite moments.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36591
Cigarettes have less than charming to leave you unfulfilled.

Oscar Wilde
(Intentions)


#36592
Only the weak take years to escape an emotion. One who is the master of itself can stifle a grief too readily that invent a pleasure.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36593
The most common thing, as soon as it is hidden we, becomes a delight.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36594
The sex of a very fascinating woman is a challenge, not a defence.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36595
The soul is born old in the body; It is to rejuvenate as it ages.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36596
Marriage is the main cause of divorce.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36597
A gentleman is one who never hurts the feelings of others not on purpose.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36598
Work is the curse of the classes who drink.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36599
When I was young, I thought that, in life, the money was there is more important. Now that I am old, I know.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36600
Never get married: the man does by weariness, the woman by curiosity and everyone is disappointed.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36601
If life had a second edition, ah! As I AW the tests!

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36602
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we need to change every six months.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36603
And women the most beautiful love stories to be eternal.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36604
The faces just to see one time to forget them forever.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36605
The biggest advantage of wealth, is that it allows to make debts.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36606
Single men should be more heavily taxed than married men. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36607
The work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36608
The United States of America form a country that went directly from barbarism to decadence without ever having known civilization.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36609
If Adam had been homosexual, nobody would there be to say.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36610
A little sincerity is dangerous; a lot of sincerity is absolutely fatal.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Critique en tant qu’artiste)


#36611
Society often forgives the criminal, never she forgives the dreamer.

Oscar Wilde
(Aphorismes)


#36612
Immorality is a myth invented by honest people to explain the curious attraction exerted by the others.

Oscar Wilde
(Formules et maximes)


#36613
The new generation is appalling. I wish to be a part!

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36614
The old believe everything; the older people are in doubt; the young know everything.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36615
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is satisfied.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36616
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he doesn't love her.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36617
Women love us for our shortcomings. If we have enough, they'll forgive us even our intellects.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36618
We should never trust a woman who admits her age. A woman who says his age is unable to keep a secret.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36619
If one wants to recapture his youth, just the mistakes.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36620
The young are always ready to give to their elders for the benefit of their inexperience.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36621
The emotions of the people ceased to love are always a bit ridiculous.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36622
There is a class of society who thinks even more of the money that the rich are the poor.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36623
The cynicism is to see things as they are and not as they should be.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36624
The French are so proud of their wines they gave some of their cities name of a grand cru.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36625
Success is a poison that should be taken rather later in life and even in small doses.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36626
Nowadays, we survived everything except death.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36627
Anyone can sympathize with the plight of his friends. It takes a really exceptional to sympathize with their success.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36628
The pessimist is one who, between two evils, chooses both.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36629
Every saint has a past and every sinner a future.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36630
Never, give until asked, neither counsel nor the salt.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36631
The time is a waste of money.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36632
A woman takes forty-five to reach 30.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36633
We should not live only for pleasure. Nothing ages like happiness.

Oscar Wilde
(Formules et maximes)


#36634
Uncertainty is the essence of the love affair.

Oscar Wilde
(Aphorismes)


#36635
The conversation must all address but nothing further.

Oscar Wilde
(Intentions)


#36636
Today all great men have their disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

Oscar Wilde
(Intentions)


#36637
It's easy to quit smoking, quit 20 times a day.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36638
The world has been created by idiots so that elders can live there.

Oscar Wilde
(Aphorismes)


#36639
I hate discussions, they sometimes make you change your mind.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36640
Young men want to be faithful and are not. The old would be faithless and cannot.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36641
To regain his youth, there is to repeat its Follies.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36642
When people are in my opinion, I always feel I'm wrong.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36643
The only way to drive with a woman is to have sex with her, if she's pretty, and with another if it is not.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36644
There is nothing like this in the world that the love of a married woman. It is something that no husband will never realize.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36645
If get you a good tip, pass it quickly to another.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36646
If you have something unpleasant to say, it is always better to be frank.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36647
After a nice dinner it doesn't more to anyone, even his own family.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36648
Fashion is what one wears. What is outdated, what are the others.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36649
A true friend stabs you in the face.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36650
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36651
The Niagara Falls are never just the second big disappointment of the honeymoon.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36652
Good resolutions are cheques drawn on a bank where there is no current account.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36653
Always play fair when you have the winning cards.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36654
Love is a sacrament that should be taken to its knees.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36655
There are only two kinds of attractive people; those who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36656
It's hard to work for a harsh master, but it is harder still to have no master who we work for.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36657
Of course, America had been discovered before Columbus, but the secret was well kept.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36658
A woman begins to resist the advances of a man, and then keeps it from running away.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36659
My duty is something I never do, in principle.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36660
It's always nice to be expected and do not arrive.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36661
Women today include everything except their husbands.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36662
Women are never disarmed by compliments. That is the difference between the sexes.

Oscar Wilde
(Les pensées d'Oscar Wilde, 2011)


#36663
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36664
Like all those who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36665
What there is worst in the fanatic, is sincerity.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36666
Speak ill of others is a dishonest way to flatter herself.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36667
Men marry because they are tired. Women because they are curious. The ones and the others are disappointed.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36668
Emotion astray us: it is his main merit.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36669
How could we say that man is a rational animal. It is what we want, except reasonable.

Oscar Wilde
(Phrases et philosophies)


#36670
There are fisheries whose memories, more than the accomplishment, is the charm; strange triumphs that flatter the pride more than passion.

Oscar Wilde
(Le portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36671
It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule on what we should read or not. More than half of the modern intellectual culture depends on what we shouldn't read.

Oscar Wilde
(Phrases et philosophies)


#36672
Morality is the attitude we adopt towards people that we cannot feel.

Oscar Wilde
(Phrases et philosophies)


#36673
There are two ways to dislike art. One is not to love him. The other is to love it in a rational way.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36674
It is the merit of science, to be devoid of emotion.

Oscar Wilde
(Le portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36675
If real life is chaos, on the other hand a terrible logic governs the imagination.

Oscar Wilde
(Le portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36676
It is the uncertainty that charms us. Everything is wonderful in the mist.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36677
All influence is immoral. Influence someone is to give his soul.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36678
To define is to limit.

Oscar Wilde
(Le portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36679
Know I can believe anything, provided that they are frankly incredible.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36680
We should keep the color of life, but never remember details. The details are always vulgar.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36681
Make the spectator of his own life it's escape from all the sufferings of life.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36682
Life is a great disappointment.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36683
It is better not to defer to his companions.

Oscar Wilde
(Le portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36684
It is just a horrible thing in this world, one unpardonable sin, boredom.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36685
The bravest of us is afraid of his self.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36686
The tragedies of others are still hopelessly trivial.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36687
Women defend themselves by attacking, and their attacks are sudden and strange surrenders.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36688
When a woman marries, it's that she hated her first husband; When a man marries again, it is that he adored his first wife.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36689
Maybe seems we never so perfectly at ease when playing a role.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36690
You do not lose without regret even his worst habits; they may be those that we regret the most.

Oscar Wilde
(Le portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36691
No one meets twice the ideal. How little encounter it even once!

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36692
When we are happy, we are always good; but when we are good, we are not always happy.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36693
Losing beauty, small or large, we lose everything. Youth is the only property that's worth.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36694
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36695
Literature always anticipates life. She does the copy point, but the mold for its purposes.

Oscar Wilde
(La Décadence du mensonge)


#36696
Nothing is more dangerous than being too modern; We may become suddenly very outdated.

Oscar Wilde
(Phrases et philosophies)


#36697
It must be a work of art or wear a work of art.

Oscar Wilde
(Phrases et philosophies)


#36698
Well-behaved people contradict each other. The wise contradict themselves.

Oscar Wilde
(Phrases et philosophies)


#36699
As soon as we blame us, it seems to us that nobody is more the right to do.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36700
The fatality wants to always take resolutions too late.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36701
The true value of a man resides in what he has, but in what it is.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36702
It is human to kill the person whom we love.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36703
We start by Err oneself; and then we deceive others.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36704
There is that a category of people who care more about money than the rich, it is the poor.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36705
The drama of old age, is not that we are getting old, it's just young.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36706
The only difference between the saint and the sinner, it is that every saint has a past and every sinner, a future.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36707
I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde
(L’éventail de Lady Windermere)


#36708
Consciousness before, we became aware after.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36709
Women are made to be loved, not to be understood.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36710
The only charm of the past, is that it is the past.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36711
There is some pleasure to accuse oneself. As soon as we blame us, it seems to us that nobody else can't do it.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36712
The world was made by fools that wise men live there.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36713
In a house where there is a hard heart, are there not always a cold wind?

Oscar Wilde
(Une Maison de Grenade)


#36714
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist your soul is sick and by dint of languish what it is forbidden.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36715
Say that a book is moral or immoral has no sense, a book is well or badly written that's all.

Oscar Wilde
(Le portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36716
Women fall into two categories: the ugly and the made-up, mothers being apart.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36717
Looking for a beautiful, good, intelligent, woman is not looking for one, but three.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36718
Nobody lives by the way to be estimated above its value.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36719
Real life is so often that we don't live.

Oscar Wilde
(Rose-leaf and apple-leaf)


#36720
One should always be in love. This is the reason why we should never get married.

Oscar Wilde
(Une Femme sans importance)


#36721
Man is a rational animal who regularly gets angry when asked to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Critique en tant qu’artiste)


#36722
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Critique en tant qu’artiste)


#36723
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.

Oscar Wilde
(L'éventail de Lady Windermere)


#36724
There is no sin or stupidity.

Oscar Wilde
(Le critique en tant qu’artiste)


#36725
Life imitates Art much more that Art imitates life.

Oscar Wilde
(La décadence du mensonge)


#36726
The books that the world calls immoral are those who showed him his own ignominy.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36727
One thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

Oscar Wilde
(Le portrait de Mr W. H.)


#36728
Democracy: the oppression of the people by the people for the people.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36729
The man wants to be the first love of women, while the woman wants to be the last love of man.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36730
Women are better adapted than the man in pain. They live emotions, think about the emotions.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


#36731
There is only the light spirits to not judge on appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36732
The follies are the only things we never regret.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36733
Love is to surpass themselves.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36734
Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend. Sympathize with its success requires a very sensitive nature.

Oscar Wilde
(Phrases et philosophies)


#36735
I choose my friends for their good presentation, my knowledge to their good character, and my enemies for their good intelligence. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde
(Le portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36736
Children begin by loving their parents; become adults, they judge them; Sometimes they forgive them.

Oscar Wilde
(Le portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36737
There are two tragedies in life: one is not satisfied his desire and the other to satisfy.

Oscar Wilde
(L’Eventail de Lady Windermere)


#36738
When the gods wish to punish us, they grant our prayers.

Oscar Wilde
(Un mari idéal)


#36739
If it is in the world something more unfortunate to be someone we're talking about, it's sure to be someone we don't talk about.

Oscar Wilde
(Le portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36740
Whenever you have an effect, we have an enemy. To be poor to be popular.

Oscar Wilde
(Le portrait de Dorian Gray)


#36741
The audience is extraordinarily tolerant. He forgives everything except genius.

Oscar Wilde
(Le critique en tant qu’artiste)


#36742
Each portrait painted with soul is not a portrait of the model, but the artist.

Oscar Wilde
(Le Portrait de Dorian Gray)


#37747
Be yourself, the others are already taken.

Oscar Wilde
(Source inconnue)


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