I leave you the best phrases of Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), Irish writer, poet and playwright, author of works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray or The Importance of Being Ernest.
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-I am so intelligent that sometimes I do not understand a single word of what I am saying.
-The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
-Living is the strangest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all.
-Who, being loved, is poor?
-Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the results.
-The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
-Loving yourself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
-A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
-There are only two tragedies in life; one is not getting what you want, and the other is getting it.
-Keep love in your heart. A life without him is like a garden without sun when the flowers are dead.
-The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-An idea that is not dangerous is not worth calling an idea at all.
-I have nothing to declare except my genius.
-The world is divided into two classes; those who believe the incredible and those who do the improbable.
-Experience is something you can't get for nothing.
-Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most that it is not.
-It's what you read when you don't have to do it that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
-A gentleman is someone who never unintentionally harms the feelings of another.
-The only way to get rid of temptation is to fall into it… I can resist everything except temptation.
-You should always play just when you have the winning cards.
-Memory is the diary that we all carry with us.
- Ordinary riches can be stolen; royal riches do not. In your soul there are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
-The face of a man is his autobiography. The face of a woman is her work of fiction.
-Expecting the unexpected shows a totally modern intellect.
-Nothing can heal the soul except the senses, just as nothing can heal the senses except the soul.
-I have simple tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
-Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing is as successful as excess.
-I'm not young enough to know everything.
-A dreamer is one who can only find his way in the light of the Moon, and his punishment is that he sees the sunrise before the rest of the world.
-If you don't take long, I'll wait here for you the rest of my life.
-When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; Now that I'm old, I know it is.
-Pessimistic: one who when he has the choice between two bad guys chooses both.
-I can resist everything except temptation.
-Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes.
-The advantage of emotions is that they guide us astray.
-The consistency is the last refuge of the lack of imagination.
-The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-One should always be in love. That is the reason why one should never marry.
-The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world their own shame.
-Every time people agree with me, I always feel that I must be wrong.
-There is only one thing worse in life than the fact that they talk about you; and is that they do not talk about you.
-Men always want to be a woman's first love, women like to be a man's last romance.
-Women are made to be loved, not understood.
-Ambition is the last refuge of failure.
-An excellent man has no enemies and does not like any of his friends.
-Illusion is the first of all pleasures.
-Everything popular is wrong.
-Life imitates art much more than art imitates life.
-Hate is blind, just like love.
-I never travel without my diary. You should always have something great to read.
-Always forgive your enemies, nothing bothers them so much.
-A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
-The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
-Egoism is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
-Everyone who is incapable of learning is led to teaching.
-You will always be my fans. I represent for you all the sins that you have never had the courage to admit.
-Cheating others. That is what the world calls a romance.
-Our ambition should be to govern ourselves, the true kingdom for each of us and true progress is to know more, be more and do more.
-Education is something admirable, but it is good to remember that nothing worthwhile can be taught.
-How can a woman expect to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
-No great artist sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
-A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
-One of the many lessons learned in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
-The basis of optimism is pure terror.
-It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or boring.
-Life is too important to talk about seriously.
-Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
-It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
-The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
-A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and much of it is absolutely fatal.
-Laughter is by no means a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.
-This suspense is terrible. I hope it last's.
-The only good thing to do with good advice is to skip it. It is never of use to oneself.
-Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we do not like personally.
-The man is less himself when he speaks in his own person. Give him a mask and he will tell you the truth.
-True friends stab you in the front.
-Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
-If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
-Seriousness is the only refuge from the superficial.
-The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.
-I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good character, and my enemies for their intelligence. A man cannot be too careful in choosing his enemies.
-If you try to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you try to be mean, don't. Such is the astonishing stupidity of optimism.
-Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
-There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is one thing that no married man knows about.
-When men love women, they give a little of their lives. But when women love they give it their all.
-It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
-Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
-By giving us the opinions of uneducated people, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
-The romance should never start with the feeling. It must start with science and end with agreement.
-In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are crazy.
-Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mime, their passions a date.
-There is always something ridiculous in the emotions of people that one has stopped loving.
-Between men and women there is no possible friendship. There is passion, enmity, adoration, love, but not friendship.
-Children begin by loving their parents; after a while they judge them; they rarely, if ever, forgive them.
-The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.
-Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
-Nothing is as aggravating as tranquility.
-There are many things that we would throw away if we weren't afraid that others would pick them up.
-There is no sin except stupidity.
-Be yourself, everyone else is taken.
-A man is quite capable of complaining about the ingratitude of those who have risen far above him.
-America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
-You can never be too groomed or too polite.
-Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mime, their passions a date.
-Never love someone who treats you as if you were normal.
-I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
-The heart exists to break it.
-You don't love someone because of their appearance, or their clothes, or their luxury car, but because they sing a song that only you can hear.
-Something is not necessarily real just because a man dies for it.
-The true essence of romance is uncertain.
-Death must be so beautiful. Lie on the soft brown earth with the herbs waving over your head and listen to the silence. Not having yesterday or tomorrow. Forget time, spare life, be at peace.
-With freedom, books, flowers and the Moon, who could not be happy?
-The biography lends itself to death, a new terror.
-A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, but does not know the value of anything.
-I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, enjoy them, and master them.
-Each portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not the model.
-To define is to limit.
-All women become someone like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that's yours.
-Fashion is such an intolerable form of ugliness that we have to change it every six months.
- Ingenuity is born, it is not bought.
-I always enjoy meeting all of my new friends, and none of the old ones.
-It is so sad that today there is such useless information.
- Crying is for simple women. Pretty women go shopping.