Oscar Wilde Quotes

“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“If you don’t want to be foolish, don’t try to fool anyone.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Some drink to forget, I drink to remember. I drink in order to understand what I mean and to discover what I know. Under its benign influence all the stories and dramas which properly belong to the sphere of art are announced by me in conversation.”
― Peter Ackroyd, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

“A touch of kindness is like a ray of light in deep darkness.”
― Debasish Mridha

“En lugar de «perdónanos nuestros pecados», la plegaria de los hombres a un Dios de justicia debería ser «castíganos por nuestras iniquidades».”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.”
― Peter Ackroyd, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

“absinthe removes the bitter taste of failure and grants me strange visions which are charming principally because they cannot be written down. Only in absinthe do I become entirely free and, when I drink it, I understand the symbolic mysteries of odour and of colour.”
― Peter Ackroyd, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

“It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.”
― Oscar Wilde, Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

“We should remember that all the arts are fine arts and all the arts decorative arts.”
― Oscar Wilde, Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

“A leader becomes great by inspiring others to do great things.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Life is transient and ephemeral so dance in your own way.”
― Debasish Mridha

“But do let us go. Dorian, you must not stay here any longer. It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their appearances.”
― Oscar Wilde

“But just as my philosophy had ceased to interest me as soon as it was formulated into a set of principles so, when I saw myself being imitated, I realised at once what an incubus my aesthetic personality might become if I were to be trapped within it. Imitation changes, not the impersonator, but the impersonated.”
― Peter Ackroyd, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

“A great leader often sacrifices greatly in the service of others.”
― Debasish Mridha

“A heart filled with love never dries out by giving away love. It is like the ocean with unending waves.”
― Debasish Mridha

“An action taken with positive thoughts will never produce negative results.”
― Debasish Mridha

“¿Y dónde dejas el arte? —preguntó ella. —Es una enfermedad. —¿El amor? —Una ilusión. —¿La religión? —El sucedáneo elegante de la fe. —Eres un escéptico. —¡Jamás! El escepticismo es el comienzo de la fe. —¿Qué eres entonces? —Definir es limitar.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“El sentimiento romántico se alimenta de la repetición, y la repetición convierte un apetito en arte. Además, cada vez que se ama es la única vez que se ha amado nunca. La diversidad del objeto no altera la unicidad de la pasión. Tan sólo la intensifica. En el mejor de los casos, sólo podemos tener una experiencia en la vida, y el secreto es reproducirla con la mayor frecuencia posible.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“¿le hace feliz su filosofía? —La felicidad no ha sido nunca mi objetivo. ¿Quién quiere felicidad? Siempre he buscado el placer. —¿Y lo ha encontrado, señor Gray? —Con frecuencia. Con demasiada frecuencia. La duquesa suspiró.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Para ser popular hay que ser mediocre”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Los libros que el mundo llama inmorales, son libros que le muestran su propia vergüenza”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Ricorda che lo stolto agli occhi degli dei e lo stolto agli occhi del mondo sono ben diversi.”
― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis

“En cuanto a una vida echada a perder, no hay vida echada a perder más que aquella cuyo crecimiento queda detenido. Si quieres destrozar un carácter, lo único que tienes que hacer es intentar reformarlo”
― Oscar Wilde, Le portrait de Dorian Gray

“Well, if my heart must break,
Dear love, for your sake,
It will break in music, I know,
Poets' hearts break so.

But strange that I was not told
That the brain can hold
In a tiny ivory cell
God's heaven and hell.


(From "Roses And Rue")”
― Oscar Wilde, Selected Poems

“The greatest wealth is a loving peaceful mind.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Give your life a destination.”
― Debasish Mridha

“La moda es siempre un esperpento tal, que nos vemos obligados a cambiarlo cada seis meses”
― Oscar Wilde

“Hablar es tener demasiada consideración por los demás. Por la boca mueren los peces y Oscar Wilde.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Plural de nadie: Aforismos