Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde was born on October 16, 1854 in Dublin. Irish poet, playwright, writer, essayist. Author of works - “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, “The Canterville Ghost”, “Ravenna”, “Sphinx”, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”, “Salome”, “The Importance of Being Earnest”, etc. Died in France on November 30, 1900.
Aphorisms, quotes, sayings Oscar Wilde
- Only empty people know themselves.
- Everything can be survived except death.
- The lies of poetry are truer than the truths of life.
- Vanity is the last refuge of a loser.
- Journalism is organized slander.
- A true artist never notices the audience.
- The basis for any gossip is the belief in immorality.
- Life is too complicated to talk about it seriously.
- English common sense is the inherited stupidity of our fathers.
- If you want to ruin a person, start re-educating him.
- Love should forgive all sins, but not the sin against love.
- The only way to get rid of temptation is to give in to it.
- Philosophy teaches us to be equanimous about the failures of others.
- The public is surprisingly tolerant: it forgives everything except genius.
- Our only duty to history is to constantly rewrite it.
- Modern democracy has only one dangerous enemy - the good monarch.
- When a person comes to visit, he does not waste his time, but the time of his hosts.
- Democracy is fooling the people, with the help of the people, for the good of the people.
- After a good dinner, you can forgive anyone, even your relatives.
- When I am released, I will simply move from one prison to another.
- When people talk about you, the only thing worse than this is when they don’t talk about you.
- A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, but a lot of sincerity is certainly a fatal thing.
- Nothing hinders a romance more than a woman's sense of humor or a man's lack of it.
- Only a truly good woman is capable of committing a truly stupid act.
- Every woman is a rebel by nature, and she rebels exclusively against herself.
- Ugly women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful people have no time for that; they are jealous of strangers.
- Children begin with love for their parents. As they grow up, they begin to judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.
- Whenever a person commits stupidity, he does it from the most noble motives.
- Society has a truly insatiable curiosity about everything that does not deserve curiosity.
- Fashion is a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are forced to change it every six months.
- Secret information is almost always the source of great wealth and the result of a public scandal.
- If a person judges something sensibly, this is a sure sign that he himself is incompetent in this area.
- In its justification, journalism can refer to the great Darwinian law of survival of the ordinary.
- The story of woman is the story of the most monstrous tyranny the world has ever known: the tyranny of the weak over the strong.
- When a person falls in love, he begins by deceiving himself, and ends by deceiving others.
- Oh, don't say you agree with me! When people say they agree with me, I always feel like I'm wrong.
- You should never trust a woman who tells you her age. A woman capable of this is capable of anything.
- With every extraordinary act we make an enemy for ourselves. To gain popularity, you have to be mediocre.
- Women treat us men the same way humanity treats its gods: they worship us and bother us, constantly demanding something.
- I would wholeheartedly advise you not to bend under the burden of grief. What appears to us to be difficult trials is sometimes actually a blessing in disguise.
- Life gives a person, at best, one single unique moment, and the secret of happiness is to repeat this moment as often as possible.
- Marriage without love is terrible. But there is something even worse: this is a marriage in which love is present, but only on one side; loyalty, but only on one side. In such a marriage, out of two hearts, one is undoubtedly broken.
- If you cannot rant about morality at least twice a week to a large and completely immoral audience, the political field is closed to you.
- The only thing we can say about human nature is that it changes. Change is the only quality that can be predicted... Systems that fail are those that rely on the immutability of human nature rather than on its growth and development.
- Most marriages break up these days primarily because of the common sense of the husband. Indeed, how can a woman be happy with a man who considers her an absolutely rational being?
The joy of life is in the soul, which becomes younger and younger over time. The tragedy of life is in the body, aging and dying.
A man marries a second time only if he truly loved the previous one. A woman will marry twice to take revenge on her ex-husband.
A person abandoned by his soul mate does not know how to live further. Therefore, it often looks ridiculous and strange in the eyes of others.
The only precise scientific discovery is that everything changes. Nothing is permanent. Accepting and honoring some laws, postulates, theories is the same as rejecting progress and development. But nature is obliged to evolve. Without constant growth, humanity will simply die out. O. Wilde
Those who live in the past have no future.
A person cannot control his sexual desire. Treason does not exist. Any affairs “on the side” are just physiology. No matter how young people restrain themselves, they cannot become faithful. Old people desperately want to “go left” – but they can’t do it anymore.
Read the continuation of the famous aphorisms and quotes of O. Wilde on the pages:
I like to talk about nothing - it's the only thing I understand.
Imagination is given to a person to console him with what he does not have, and a sense of humor - to console him with what he does have.
Self-sacrifice must be punished by law. It demoralizes those for whom sacrifices are made.
It is very dangerous to meet a woman who completely understands you. This usually ends in marriage.
Loyalty! It contains the greed of the owner. We would willingly give up a lot of things if it weren’t for the fear that someone else would pick it up...
Questions are never indiscreet. Unlike the answers.
Time is a waste of money.
Our only duty to history is to constantly rewrite it.
I am always very friendly towards those who are indifferent to me.
Everything that is beautiful in this life is either immoral, illegal, or leads to obesity.
Being in society is simply boring. And to be outside society is already a tragedy.
It's terribly hard work to do nothing.
If you want to ruin a person, start re-educating him.
America is a paradise for women. That is why, like Eve in her time, they strive to get out of there as quickly as possible.
Life is too complicated to talk about it seriously.
Positive people get on your nerves, bad people get on your imagination.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
All charming people are flawed, and this is the secret of their attractiveness.
Do you know him? I know him so well that I haven't spoken to him in ten years.
People always destroy what they love most.
A thought that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called a thought.
English common sense is the inherited stupidity of our fathers.
Giving advice is always bad, but no one will forgive you for good advice.
Everyone sympathizes with the misfortunes of their friends, and only a few rejoice at their successes.
Friendship is more tragic than love - it takes much longer to die.
It's always nice not to arrive where you are expected.
England and America are two nations divided by a common language.
Interest in ethical issues is evidence of delayed mental development.
The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that a saint has a past and a sinner has a future.
If a person judges something sensibly, this is a sure sign that he himself is incompetent in this area.
The purpose of art is to reveal beauty and hide the artist.
American women are tired of long races, but they are excellent in steeplechase racing.
Selfishness does not mean that a person lives as he wants, but that he forces others to live according to his principles.
I don’t want to know what they say behind my back; I already have a high enough opinion of myself.
When Good is powerless, it is Evil.
Be yourself. Other roles are already filled.
Do you know how great a woman's curiosity is? Almost the same as men's.
When the gods want to punish us, they listen to our prayers.
To be natural, you need to be able to pretend.
The only thing you will never regret is our mistakes and delusions.
When you have winning cards in your hand, you should play fairly.
Most of us are not us. Our thoughts are someone else's judgments; our life is mimicry; our passions - quote!
Life is short, art is endless.
Loyalty in love, like consistency and immutability of thoughts, is simply proof of powerlessness.
Everything can be survived except death.
This is what makes me angry about women. Be sure to give them a good man. Moreover, if he is good from the very beginning, they will never love him. They need to love him as bad and leave him as disgustingly good.
I have very unpretentious taste - the best is enough.
Truth is rarely pure and never unambiguous.
There are only two tragedies possible in life: the first is to get what you dream of, the second is not to get it.
Christ died not to save people, but to teach them to save each other.
It is better to adore than to be adored. Tolerating someone's adoration is boring and painful.
Whenever a person commits stupidity, he does it from the most noble motives.
Children begin with love for their parents. As they grow up, they begin to judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.
When I am released, I will simply move from one prison to another.
America was discovered many times before Columbus, but no one was told about it.
If a person speaks the truth, sooner or later he will be exposed.
The American is the Don Quixote of common sense, for he is practical to such an extent that he is completely divorced from reality.
Most marriages break up these days primarily because of the common sense of the husband. Indeed, how can a woman be happy with a man who considers her an absolutely rational being?
Nothing is impossible in Russia except reforms.
There is only one sin - stupidity.
Only empty people know themselves.
How can a woman be happy with a man who considers her an absolutely rational being?
We're all sitting in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
In everything that people take seriously, you need to see the comic side of things.
An ideal man should talk to us like goddesses and treat us like children.
A woman will flirt with anyone as long as they look at her at the time.
It makes no sense to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or stupid.
Forgiving your enemies is the best way to piss them off.
If the gods want to punish a person, they fulfill his wishes.
When we are happy, we are always kind; but when we are kind, we are not always happy.
In its justification, journalism can refer to the great Darwinian law of survival of the ordinary.
It's none of my business. That's why it interests me. My work always makes me sad. I prefer strangers.
I always pass on good advice to others. There is nothing more to do with them.
The secret to being boring is to tell everything about yourself.
You should never trust a woman who tells you her age. A woman capable of this is capable of anything.
Other people's dramas are always unbearably banal.
Being in society is simply boring. And to be outside of society is already a tragedy.
With every extraordinary act we make an enemy for ourselves. To gain popularity, you have to be mediocre.
Atheism needs religion no less than faith.
Democracy is fooling the people, with the help of the people, for the good of the people.
Enemies should be chosen with special care.
The burdens of our day are too heavy for man to bear alone, and the pain of the world is too deep for man to bear alone.
A good half of modern culture is based on what should not be read.
If we men married the women we are worth, we would have a bad time!
Life is too serious a thing to talk about seriously.
I can resist anything except temptation.
Being selfish does not mean living the way you want. It means asking others to live the way you would like.
All men are monsters. Women have only one thing left to do - feed them better.
In our age, people read too much, it prevents them from being wise.
Ugly women are always jealous of their husbands; beautiful people have no time for that, they are jealous of strangers.
Life gives a person, at best, one single unique moment, and the secret of happiness is to repeat this moment as often as possible.
It's good when friendship begins with a smile. But it’s even better if it ends with her.
If you want to know what a woman really thinks, look at her, but don't listen.
Most of us are not us. Our thoughts are other people's judgments; our life is mimicry; our passions - quote!
If something is worth doing, it is only what is considered impossible.
Marriage without love is terrible. But there is something even worse: this is a marriage in which love is present, but only on one side; loyalty, but only on one side. In such a marriage, out of two hearts, one is undoubtedly broken.
I live in constant fear that I will be misunderstood.
Every woman is a rebel by nature, and she rebels exclusively against herself.
A true friend will stab you from the front.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to give in to it.
Whenever a person commits stupidity, he does it from the most noble motives.
Friendship between a man and a woman is impossible. Passion, enmity, adoration, love - just not friendship.
Atheism needs religion no less than faith.
Reality always appears to me through a haze of words. I will sacrifice authenticity for the sake of a successful phrase and am ready to sacrifice truth for the sake of a good aphorism.
As for honest poverty, you can, of course, pity it, but admire it - no way!
It's terribly hard work to do nothing.
When the gods want to punish us, they listen to our prayers.
When a woman marries for the second time, it means that she hated her first husband; When a man remarries, it is because he adored his first wife.
Men marry out of boredom, women out of curiosity. Both are disappointed.
Marriage without love is terrible. But there is something even worse: this is a marriage in which love is present, but only on one side; fidelity, but only on one side... in such a marriage, out of two hearts, one is undoubtedly broken.
Loyalty in love is entirely a matter of physiology; it does not depend at all on our will. Young people want to be faithful - and they are not, old people would like to change, but where can they be?
Enemies should be chosen with special care.
Whenever a person commits stupidity, he does it from the most noble motives.
There is only one sin - stupidity.
Having sinned, a person gets rid of the attraction to sin, for fulfillment is the path to purification.
democracy
Modern democracy has only one dangerous enemy - the good monarch.
The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
At first, children love their parents, but over time, however, they begin to judge them and rarely, very rarely forgive them.
Children begin with love for their parents. As they grow up, they begin to judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.
When Good is powerless, it is Evil.
Everyone praises those virtues in which he himself does not need to practice: the rich preach frugality, and the idle eloquently spread about the great importance of work.
The soul is born old and gradually becomes younger. This is the comedic side of life. The body is born young and gradually ages. And this is the tragic side.
If you want to know what a woman really thinks, look at her, but don't listen.
A woman has an amazing instinct: they are ready to detect anything, except for the obvious.
Women inspire us to create masterpieces, but they prevent our inspiration from being realized.
Women treat us men the same way humanity treats their gods: they worship us and bother us, constantly demanding something.
How can a woman be happy with a man who considers her an absolutely rational being?
Every woman is a rebel by nature, and she rebels exclusively against herself.
You should never trust a woman who tells you her age. A woman capable of this is capable of anything.
Ugly women are always jealous of their husbands; beautiful people have no time for that, they are jealous of strangers.
Only a truly good woman can do a truly stupid thing.
Life is too serious a thing to talk about seriously.
The purpose of life is self-expression. To reveal our essence in its entirety is what we live for.
A woman has amazing intuition: she can guess everything except the most obvious.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, but absolute sincerity is simply fatal.
For an artist, a person’s moral life is only one of the themes of his work. The ethics of art lies in the perfect use of imperfect means.
Life is short, art is endless.
The benefit that art gives us is not in what we learn, but in what we become, thanks to it.
The only way to get rid of temptation is to give in to it.
Truth is rarely pure and never unambiguous.
story
Our only duty to history is to constantly rewrite it.
There are no moral or immoral books. There are books that are well written or poorly written.
I can’t stand logic, it’s always banal and often convincing.
What stupidity this Love is. It does not have half the benefit that Logic has.
Love should forgive all sins, but not the sin against love.
Do you know how great a woman's curiosity is? Almost the same as men's.
Society has a truly insatiable curiosity about everything that does not deserve curiosity.
Only people of action have more illusions than dreamers. They have no idea why they are doing something or what will come of it.
prayers
Prayer must remain unanswered, otherwise it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
A man who reads morals is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who reads morals is certainly an ugly woman.
In our age we read too much, it prevents us from being wise.
A man can be happy with any woman - provided that he does not love her.
A thought that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called a thought.
about myself
I don’t want to know what they say about me behind my back; I already have a high enough opinion of myself.
I can handle everything except temptation.
Education is an excellent thing, but it is good sometimes to remember that nothing that one should know can be taught.
Optimism is based on pure fear.
Those who pretend to be good are taken seriously by the world. Those who pretend to be bad are not. Such is the boundless stupidity of optimists.
The biggest vice is superficiality.
With every extraordinary act we make an enemy for ourselves. To gain popularity, you have to be mediocre.
Bad poetry always arises from sincere feeling.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
If a person speaks the truth, sooner or later he will be exposed.
Punctuality is the thief of time.
Ugly women are jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women have nothing to do with it - they are busy being jealous of other people's husbands.
Religion dies the moment its infallibility is proven.
Nothing hinders a romance more than a woman's sense of humor or a man's lack of it.
skepticism
Skepticism is the beginning of faith.
glory
Popularity is the laurel wreath bestowed by the world on base art. Everything that is popular is bad.
Laughter is a good start to friendship, and laughter is a good way to end it.
I always pass on good advice to others. There is nothing more to do with them.
The only thing worse than injustice is justice without a punishing sword.
Life is never fair. For most of us, it's probably better this way.
The tragedy of old age is not that you are old, but that you are not young.
When we are happy, we are always kind; but when we are kind, we are not always happy.
With freedom, flowers, books and the moon - how can you not be completely happy?
I always surprise myself. This is the only thing worth living for.
Philosophy teaches us to be equanimous about the failures of others.
The cynic knows the price of everything, but does not know the value.
A cynic is a person who knows the value of everything and values nothing.
- Atheism needs religion no less than faith.
- The benefit that art gives us is not in what we learn, but in what we become, thanks to it.
- Most of us are not us. Our thoughts are someone else's judgments; our life is mimicry; our passions - quote!
- Marriage without love is terrible. But there is something even worse: this is a marriage in which love is present, but only on one side; loyalty, but only on one side. In such a marriage, out of two hearts, one is undoubtedly broken.
- To be good means to live in harmony with yourself.
- Being selfish does not mean living the way you want. It means asking others to live the way you would like.
- In our age we read too much, it prevents us from being wise.
- Questions are never indiscreet. Unlike the answers.
- Whenever a person commits stupidity, he does it from the most noble motives.
- Enemies should be chosen with special care.
- For an artist, a person’s moral life is only one of the themes of his work. The ethics of art lies in the perfect use of imperfect means.
- A good half of modern culture is based on what should not be read.
- The soul is born old and gradually becomes younger. This is the comedic side of life. The body is born young and gradually ages. And this is the tragic side.
- The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that a saint has a past and a sinner has a future.
- Our only duty to history is to constantly rewrite it.
- The only way to get rid of temptation is to give in to it.
- If a person speaks the truth, sooner or later he will be exposed.
- If a person judges something sensibly, this is a sure sign that he himself is incompetent in this area.
- If something is worth doing, it is only what is considered impossible.
- There is only one sin - stupidity.
- Life is short, art is endless.
- Life is too serious a thing to talk about seriously.
- Do you know how great a woman's curiosity is? Almost the same as men's.
- Interest in ethical issues is evidence of delayed mental development.
- Truth is rarely pure and never unambiguous.
- Every woman is a rebel by nature, and she rebels exclusively against herself.
- Everyone praises those virtues in which he himself does not need to practice: the rich preach frugality, and the idle eloquently spread about the great importance of work.
- With every extraordinary act we make an enemy for ourselves. To gain popularity, you have to be mediocre.
- How can a woman be happy with a man who considers her an absolutely rational being?
- When the gods want to punish us, they listen to our prayers.
- When a woman marries for the second time, it means that she hated her first husband; When a man remarries, it is because he adored his first wife.
- When Good is powerless, it is Evil.
- When we are happy, we are always kind; but when we are kind, we are not always happy.
- When you have winning cards in your hand, you should play fairly.
- The best way to make children good is to make them happy.
- Love should forgive all sins, but not the sin against love.
- A person carries self-love throughout his life.
- The world has always laughed at its tragedies, because this is the only way to bear them. Accordingly, everything that the world has always taken seriously belongs to the comedic side of life.
- Prayer must remain unanswered, otherwise it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
- A man can be happy with any woman - provided that he does not love her.
- Men marry out of boredom, women out of curiosity. Both are disappointed.
- A thought that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called a thought.
- There are no moral or immoral books. There are books that are well written or poorly written.
- You should never trust a woman who tells you her age. A woman capable of this is capable of anything.
- Nothing hinders a romance more than a woman's sense of humor or a man's lack of it.
- We prefer to think well of others because we are terribly afraid for ourselves.
- Education is an excellent thing, but it is good sometimes to remember that nothing that one should know can be taught.
- Society has a truly insatiable curiosity about everything that does not deserve curiosity.
- It is very easy to change others, but it is much more difficult to change yourself.
- Bad poetry always arises from sincere feeling.
- Only the most undiscerning people do not judge by appearance.
- At first, children love their parents, but over time, however, they begin to judge them and rarely, very rarely forgive them.
- Popularity is the laurel wreath bestowed by the world on base art. Everything that is popular is bad.
- Religion dies the moment its infallibility is proven.
- Self-sacrifice must be punished by law. It demoralizes those for whom sacrifices are made.
- The biggest vice is superficiality.
- Ugly women are always jealous of their husbands; beautiful people have no time for that, they are jealous of strangers.
- Laughter is a good start to friendship, and laughter is a good way to end it.
- With freedom, flowers, books and the moon - how can you not be completely happy?
- Having sinned, a person gets rid of the attraction to sin, for fulfillment is the path to purification.
- Anyone can empathize with the suffering of a friend, but only an unusually subtle nature can empathize with success.
- Old people believe everything, middle-aged people suspect everything, young people know everything.
- I can’t stand logic, it’s always banal and often convincing.
- Only a truly good woman can do a truly stupid thing.
- Those who look back on their past do not deserve the future.
- The tragedy of old age is not that you are old, but that you are not young.
- A woman has amazing intuition: she can guess everything except the most obvious.
- Modern democracy has only one dangerous enemy - the good monarch.
- I always pass on good advice to others. There is nothing more to do with them.
- The purpose of life is self-expression. To reveal our essence in its entirety is what we live for.
- The cynic knows the price of everything, but does not know the value.
- Man cannot be careful enough in choosing his enemies.
- As for honest poverty, you can, of course, pity it, but admire it - no way! The feeling of anxiety is incompatible with the feeling of freedom.
- To be natural, you need to be able to pretend.
- It's terribly hard work to do nothing.
- I don’t want to know what they say about me behind my back; I already have a high enough opinion of myself.
There is always something ridiculous in the behavior of people who have fallen out of love.
I can handle everything except temptation.
