Quotes

Oscar Wilde

I recommend everyone to read the book The picture of Dorian Gray

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."

"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."

"A good friend will always stab you in the front."

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there."

"Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."

"You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear."

''A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth

"I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all." ( this one is my favorite from Oscar Wilde )

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."(

I need to think abou this one )

"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?"

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing."

''It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."

"To define is to limit."

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."( I sometimes think like that )

"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."

"Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."

"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."

"Everything in moderation, including moderation."

"Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."

''I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.”