Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde was born October 16, 1854 in Dublin. Irish poet, playwright, writer, essayist. The author of works - "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "The Canterville Ghost", "Ravenna", "Sphinx", "The Ballad of Reading Prison", "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 experienced except death.
- The lies of poetry are truer than the truth of life.
- Vanity is the last refuge of a loser.
- Journalism is organized slander.
- A real artist never notices the audience.
- The basis for all gossip is the belief in immorality.
- Life is too complicated to be taken seriously.
- English common sense is the inherited stupidity of the fathers.
- If you want to spoil a person, start re-educating him.
- Love must 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 deal with the failures of others with equanimity.
- 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 spends not his time, but the time of the hosts.
- Democracy is fooling the people with the help of the people for the good of the people.
- After a good meal, you can forgive anyone, even your relatives.
- When they release me, I will simply move from one prison to another.
- When they talk about you, then only one thing can be worse than this - when they don’t talk about you.
- A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, but a lot of sincerity is a fatal thing.
- Nothing gets in the way of a romance like a woman's sense of humor or a man's lack of it.
- Only a truly good woman can do a truly stupid thing.
- Every woman is a rebel by nature, and she rebels exclusively against herself.
- Ugly women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful - not before, they are jealous of strangers.
- Children begin with love for their parents. Growing 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 have to change it every six months.
- Secret information is almost always the source of a great fortune 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 defense, journalism can refer to the great Darwinian law of the survival of the mediocre.
- 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 starts by deceiving himself and ends by deceiving others.
- Ah, 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 each of our extraordinary actions, we make an enemy for ourselves. To be popular, you have to be mediocre.
- Women treat us men the same way humanity treats its gods: they worship us and annoy us, constantly demanding something.
- I would wholeheartedly advise you not to bend under the burden of grief. What appears to us as severe trials is sometimes actually a blessing in disguise.
- Life gives a person, at best, a 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: it is a marriage in which there is love, but only on one side; fidelity, but only on one side. In such a marriage of two hearts, one is undoubtedly broken.
- If you cannot rant about morality at least twice a week before 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 nowadays primarily because of the good sense of the husband. Indeed, how can a woman be happy with a man who considers her an absolutely rational being.
Wilde went down in history as one of the famous men who managed to look into the female soul. Oscar Wilde's quotes amaze with their wit and precision of wording.
Oscar Wilde quotes about women
The woman begins by repulsing the advance of the man, and ends by cutting off his retreat.
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* * *In fact, women love it when men are badly dressed. They are always a little afraid of the dandy and want the appearance of a man to speak against him.
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* * *Women are highly practical people. They are much more practical than us. A man in sublime moments often forgets to talk about marriage, and a woman always reminds him of this.
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* * *Do not let yourself be led astray from the path of the unrighteous! Virtuous you will be unbearably boring. This is what angers me in 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 fall in love with him bad, and leave him - disgustingly good.
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* * *-Who do you think is spoiled?
-Those men who admire innocence.
What about spoiled women?
“Oh, those women who never bother men.
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* * *Nothing harms a novel more than a sense of humor in a woman or a lack of it in a man.
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* * *You should never give a woman something that she cannot wear in the evenings.
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* * *Men get older, but they don't get better.
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A woman is a sphinx without riddles.
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Witty quotes from Oscar Wilde about women
Margaret has improved a lot. The last time I saw her, twenty years ago, she was a freak in diapers.
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* * *The old respect for youth is quickly dying. I lost any influence on my mother already at the age of three.
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* * *“I believe that if a mother does not part with at least one daughter every season, then she does not have a heart.
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* * *“This governess is too beautiful to be kept in a decent house.
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* * *- No, I'm not cynical, I just have experience - however, this is one and the same.
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* * *– I like listening to myself. For me, this is one of the greatest pleasures. Sometimes I have very long conversations with myself, and, to be honest, I am so educated and smart that sometimes I do not understand a single word of what I say.
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* * *I don't go anywhere without a diary. On the train, you should always have something exciting to read.
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It's terrible how women have become calculating. No doubt, our grandmothers also happened to indulge in all serious things, but their granddaughters will certainly first figure out what it will give them.
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* * *We are all poor now, so compliments are the only offering we can afford.
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* * *Women cannot be disarmed by a compliment. Men - yes. This is the difference.
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* * *A woman will flirt with anyone, as long as they look at her at that time.
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Marriage has the same destructive effect on a person as cigarettes, but it costs much more.
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* * *A woman marries a second time only if her first husband was disgusting to her. And a man marries again only because he loved his first wife very much.
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* * *I didn't say he was getting married. I only said that he was going to get married. It's far from the same. For example, I clearly remember that I got married, but I don’t remember at all that I was going to get married. And I tend to think that I never had such an intention.
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* * *You can't trust a woman who doesn't hide her age. Such a woman can say anything.
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* * *A woman should never be too precise about her age. It reeks of pedantry.
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* * *She was created to be the wife of a messenger. She has an amazing ability to remember people's names and forget their faces.
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* * *Yesterday there was a lot of blush on her, and very little dress. In a woman, this is always a sign of despair.
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* * *Dear child! She loves photography so much, especially views of Switzerland. Unusually chaste taste.
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* * *She can speak with brilliance about any subject, provided that she knows nothing about it.
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* * *Many women have pasts, but she is said to have at least a dozen.
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* * *She retained traces of her amazing ugliness even in her old age.
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* * *Perhaps cruelty, outright cruelty, is the sweetest thing for women: they have surprisingly strong primitive instincts. We gave them freedom, but they still remained slaves looking for a master. They love to be subdued.
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* * *Women have amazing instincts. They notice everything but the most obvious.
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* * *Women in life are wonderful actresses, but they have no artistic flair. They want to continue the performance when all interest in it has already disappeared. If they were given free rein, every comedy would have a tragic ending, and every tragedy would turn into a farce.
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Oscar Wilde quotes about women, men and relationships
Quotes by Oscar Wilde are saturated with a special ability to notice the subtleties of the psychology of relationships:
You are not a master of compliments. I'm afraid that your wife does not encourage you in this useful habit. This is a big mistake on her part. When a man stops saying nice words, his thoughts change accordingly.
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* * *“I hope you don't lead a double life pretending to be dissolute when you're actually virtuous. That would be hypocrisy.
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* * *It's good that you smoke. Every man needs something to do. And there are too many idlers in London.
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* * *“I love men over seventy. They always offer women love to the grave. In my opinion, seventy years is the ideal age for a man.
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* * *“Good husbands are unbearably boring, bad husbands are terribly presumptuous.
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* * *All men are monsters. The only thing left for women is to feed them better.
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* * *-The surest consolation is to beat off a suitor from another when you lose yours. In high society, this always rehabilitates a woman.
Oscar Wilde
On October 16, 162 years ago, the outstanding literary genius Oscar Wilde was born - a playwright, prose writer, poet, and critic known to everyone. Irish by birth, it was he who became one of the most famous writers in England. After all, it is at Oxford Magdalen College that Wilde is born: witty, eloquent, wise, not like everyone else ... And it is there that he gains a reputation as a person who “shines without much effort”. His special philosophy of creativity also took shape here: he does not intrigue with events, he simply introduces us to his characters - contradictory, sometimes self-centered, lonely - unobtrusively offering to touch his worldview and attitude to life.
A great speaker, he made everyone around him fall in love with his stories, sometimes fictional. It was he who made a revolution in the fashion and literature of England in the 19th century: a long-haired handsome man in eccentric outfits, who chose the role of a great aesthete, imitating someone else's voice, not afraid to express himself as he sees fit - only he could afford this. In addition, he skillfully combined all this with extraordinary wisdom, which has not lost its value over the years.
The future genius was born in Dublin in the family of a famous surgeon and poetess. Oscar spent all his childhood with his mother, whom he simply idolized, since soon after his birth his parents broke up. From childhood, the boy grows up in an atmosphere of poetry and beauty - it was from his mother that he inherited impeccable taste and love for beauty. The boy was named after the warrior Fingal and his grandson Oscar (Wilde's full name is Oscar Fingal O'Flaherty Wills Wilde), but the mother wanted a girl and did not hide it. The child was told that he was a boy on the day that Oscar's sister was born. Who knows, perhaps this is what influenced the psyche of the future genius ...
Until the age of 9, Oskar studied at home, so when he went to school, he already knew 2 languages: German and French. Later, he enters a prestigious college in Dublin, where he develops a special interest in art, the humanities and ancient literature. Even then, his talent as an excellent orator began to manifest itself - he was the best. After college, he enters Oxford, where he finally gets rid of his Irish accent and leads a circle of decadents.
While still at university, he was known for his passion for decorating a room with beautiful things. Having fallen under the influence of romanticism, he erects a cult of beauty, which later leads to tragedy. The writer was distinguished by an outrageous style of clothing: short pants combined with silk stockings, a vest with embroidery in the form of flowers, bright yellow gloves and a lush frill - this was the norm for him, but not for the public.
After graduating from university, Wilde goes to conquer London. A self-confident writer always with a flower in his buttonhole becomes a regular guest of secular salons. It seemed that all the women of London were crazy about him, and the men were ready to talk with him for hours. He is so sure of his irresistibility that one day at customs he declares: "I have nothing to declare except my genius." He receives recognition not only in London, but also in America and France. Everywhere he is accepted as "the best among equals."
As for the work of Oscar Wilde, it was contradictory and outrageous, like the writer himself. Already the first serious literary works demonstrate the author's commitment to decadence, which is characterized by the cult of individualism, pretentiousness, mysticism, pessimistic moods of loneliness and despair. In lectures, which he actively began to read from 1881, Oscar advocated the denial of the social function of art: Wilde was sure that real art has always been the art of beautiful lies, and the rejection of it can lead art to decline. He wanted to prove that the writer has the right to full self-expression.
In 1890, Oscar Wilde, commissioned by an American publisher, wrote The Picture of Dorian Gray, in which the author describes the aestheticization of immorality, the concept of cynical hedonism, and the charm of vice. In the same period, he writes several more plays, which are very successful, but at the same time are accompanied by public scandals. The loudest of them, of course, was associated with the novel "Dorian Gray" - then the writer was accused of immorality. Further, the drama "Salome" was banned by censorship - here everything was already more serious, because Wilde touched on the biblical theme, which he presented in the style of decadence.
At 29, Oscar Wilde marries the beautiful Constance Loyd for love. He was happy. One after another, two sons Cyril and Vivian were born. Oscar loved the kids, but he rarely saw them, as he constantly traveled around with lectures and led a busy social life. Meanwhile, fate is preparing a surprise for both of them.
Years pass, and Oscar Wilde is horrified to realize that he no longer feels anything for his wife. Being a supporter of the position that there is nothing worse than marriage without love, and being disappointed in life, he goes headlong into work. Around the same time, he met Alfred Douglas. Wilde compared him to Narcissus, who gratefully accepted signs of attention. But society did not appreciate such an ambiguous friendship between Oscar and Alfred, and in 1895 a scandal broke out that put an end not only to the writer's literary career, but also made him lose his will and desire to live. Wilde sues the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his closest friend Alfred Douglas, for accusations of homosexuality. However, Douglas is a witness for the prosecution, and Wilde is convicted of immorality and sentenced to two years in prison. Wilde's plays immediately disappear from theater posters, and some works are banned.
Two years later, Wilde leaves prison a completely sick and broken man. Under a false name, he leaves for France and dies three years later in poverty. In recent years, he falls into an ongoing depression and says that the world is full of suffering and that the highest duty of the poet is to write about them. In his last work, The Ballad of Reading Prison, he tells the story of a prisoner sentenced to death for the murder of his beloved.
Oscar Wilde passed away on November 29, 1900, but in our hearts he will forever remain one of the brightest figures in literature. To this day, his works are divided into quotes, we have chosen the brightest ones.
Life according to Oscar Wilde
"In every person there are two beginnings: the desire for God and the desire for Satan."
“Everyone can empathize with the suffering of a friend, but success is only an unusually subtle nature.”
“The tragedy of old age is not that you are old, but that you still consider yourself young.”
"Books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its shame."
"Society has a truly insatiable curiosity about everything that does not deserve curiosity."
"Sometimes what we think is dead doesn't want to die for a long time."
“Education is a wonderful thing, but it should be remembered at least once in a while that nothing that really needs to be learned can be taught.”
“There are only two real tragedies in life: one is when you don’t get what you want, and the second is when you do.”
Love according to Oscar Wilde
"People always destroy what they love the most."
"The strongest foundation for marriage is mutual misunderstanding."
“Marriage without love is a terrible thing. But there is something worse than even marriage without love. This is a marriage in which there is love, but only on one side; there is fidelity, but only on one side; there is devotion, but only on one side. In such a marriage, one of the hearts will certainly be broken.
"You can be happy with any woman if you don't love her."
“Ugly women are always jealous of their husbands; beautiful is not up to it, they are jealous of strangers.
“A person carries love for himself through his whole life.”
“Love begins with the fact that a person deceives himself, and ends with the fact that he deceives another.”
“Friendship between a man and a woman is impossible. Passion, enmity, adoration, love - but not friendship.
People by Oscar Wilde
“It makes no sense to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or stupid.”
"People always laugh at their tragedies - that's the only way to endure them."
"In everything that people take seriously, you need to see the comic side of things."
"We can't stand people with the same flaws that we have."
"Lies are the truth of other people."
“A person is very embarrassed when he speaks on his own behalf. Give him a mask and he will tell you the whole truth."
"Only empty people know themselves."
Oscar Wilde about himself
“I always surprise myself. It's the only thing worth living for."
"Even Dickens didn't have such an extensive audience, I'm treated like a crown prince."
"It's either me or that nasty floral wallpaper" (before dying).
“I don’t want to know what people are saying behind my back. It flatters me too much."
"We're all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
"I declare nothing but my genius."
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Oscar Wilde, an outstanding English writer, poet and playwright, was born on October 16
A master of spectacular aphorisms and ingenious paradoxes, Oscar Wilde is one of the most quoted classics on the internet. As did his friend.
A witty, handsome man with long hair, Oscar Wilde, was a favorite of society during his lifetime. The writer's contemporaries claimed that in his presence no one else was paid attention at all. An excellent interlocutor, a skillful orator, witty, with perfect diction, he charmed his listeners with his lectures and stories. Many of them remained unwritten: Wilde did not have the habit of writing down everything that came to his mind.
Even before declaring himself in literature, Oscar Wilde made a revolution in fashion. He appeared in society in personally invented mind-blowing outfits. Today it was short culottes and silk stockings, tomorrow - a vest embroidered with flowers, the day after tomorrow - lemon gloves combined with a lush lace frill. An indispensable accessory was a carnation in a buttonhole, painted green.
Discarding all religious and moral prejudices, Oscar Wilde sang the cult of beauty. In 19th century Victorian England, this was unforgivably outrageous.
In early 1882, Wilde went to conquer America. He got off the ship in the port of New York and, in Wilde's way, threw out to the reporters who swooped down on him: "Gentlemen, the ocean disappointed me, it is not at all as majestic as I thought." Going through customs procedures, when asked if he had anything to declare, he replied: "I have nothing to declare, except for my genius." He was confident in his irresistibility and in his talent.
Outrageous and narcissistic Oscar Wilde often heard sharp criticism, ridicule and accusations of immorality addressed to him. He either ignored the offenders, going into creativity, or with brilliance and Wilde's wit he got out of the situation. However, the mind and oratory did not save the writer at the fateful trial, where he was convicted of homosexual relationships and sent to hard labor.
Prison broke Oscar Wilde mentally and physically. But she could not kill the esthete in him to the marrow of his bones. In exile, under a false name, dying in a run-down hotel in poverty, obscurity and loneliness, he said: "Either me, or this vile flower wallpaper."
The works of Oscar Wilde - "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "The Importance of Being Earnest", "The Ideal Husband", "The Woman of No Interest", "Lady Windermere's Fan" and others - were taken apart for quotes all over the world. website presents the most significant of them, according to which one can easily form an image of the London dandy, esthete and philosopher Oscar Wilde.
About people
- Most of us are not us. Our thoughts are the judgments of others; our life is mimicry; our passions - quote!
- We can't stand people with the same flaws that we have.
- You love everyone, and to love everyone means not to love anyone. Everyone is equally indifferent to you.
- Positive people act on the nerves, bad people - on the imagination.
- Lies are the truth of other people.
- A cynic is a person who knows the price of everything and appreciates nothing.
- A person is very embarrassed when he speaks on his own behalf. Give him a mask and he will tell you the whole truth.
- To be good means to live in harmony with oneself.
- There is a kind of voluptuousness in self-flagellation. And when we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has the right to blame us anymore.
- <...>a man who has no enemies, but who are successfully replaced by friends who secretly hate him.
- Only empty people know themselves.
About success
- The world is divided into two classes - some believe in the incredible, others do the impossible.
- Moderation is a fatal property. Only extremes lead to success.
- Great success always requires some promiscuity in the means.
- Ambition is the last refuge of losers.
- People call their mistakes experiences.
- Be yourself, the rest of the roles are taken.
About relationships
- Falling in love begins with the fact that a person deceives himself, and ends with the fact that he deceives another
- It is not bad if friendship begins with laughter, and it is best if it ends with it.
- Selfishness does not mean living the way you want, it is a requirement for others to live the way you want it.
- Friendship between a man and a woman is impossible. Passion, enmity, adoration, love - but not friendship.
About old age
- The tragedy of old age is not that a person grows old, but that he remains young in soul.
- To regain youth, one has only to repeat all its follies.
About myself
- I like to talk about nothing. It's the only one I know anything about.
- I don't want to know what people are saying behind my back. This flatters me too much.
- I love men with a future and women with a past.
- What is fashionable is what you wear yourself. And what others wear is unfashionable.
- We're all in the gutter, but some of us are stargazing.
- The only way to get rid of temptation is to give in to it.
about religion
- Religion is a very common surrogate for faith.
- The truths of faith are not believed because they are reasonable, but because they are often repeated.
- Prayer must remain unanswered, otherwise it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
About women
- You should never trust a woman who tells you her age. A woman who can do this is capable of anything.
- If a woman has a lot of blush on, and very few dresses, this is a sign of despair.
- The strength of a woman is that she cannot be explained with the help of psychology. Men can be analyzed, women can only be adored.
- Women love us for our flaws. If there are a fair amount of these shortcomings, they are ready to forgive us everything, even the mind ...
- As one witty Frenchman said, women inspire us to great things, but always prevent us from doing them.
- With bad women you do not know peace, but with good women you are bored.
- Women exist to be loved, not to be understood.
About marriage
- The main harm of marriage is that it corrodes selfishness from a person. And unselfish people are colorless, they lose their individuality.
- Men marry out of fatigue, women marry out of curiosity. Both marriages are disappointing.
- Loyalty! It is the greed of the owner. There are many things we would gladly give up if not for the fear that someone else would pick them up.
- The strongest foundation for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
About life
- Broken can only be considered a life that has stopped in its development.
- There are only two real tragedies in life: one is when you don't get what you want, and the second is when you get it.
- People always laugh at their tragedies - that's the only way to endure them.
- Life is too caustic liquid. She destroys art.
- The purpose of life is self-expression. To manifest our essence in all its fullness - that's what we live for.
Oscar Wilde, an outstanding English writer, poet and playwright, was born on October 16
A master of spectacular aphorisms and ingenious paradoxes, Oscar Wilde is one of the most quoted classics on the internet. As did his friend Bernard Shaw.
A witty, handsome man with long hair, Oscar Wilde, was a favorite of society during his lifetime. The writer's contemporaries claimed that in his presence no one else was paid attention at all. An excellent interlocutor, a skillful orator, witty, with perfect diction, he charmed his listeners with his lectures and stories. Many of them remained unwritten: Wilde did not have the habit of writing down everything that came to his mind.
Even before declaring himself in literature, Oscar Wilde made a revolution in fashion. He appeared in society in personally invented mind-blowing outfits. Today it was short culottes and silk stockings, tomorrow a vest embroidered with flowers, the day after tomorrow lemon gloves combined with a lush lace frill. An indispensable accessory was a carnation in a buttonhole, painted green.
Discarding all religious and moral prejudices, Oscar Wilde sang the cult of beauty. In 19th century Victorian England, this was unforgivably outrageous.
In early 1882, Wilde went to conquer America. He got off the ship in the port of New York and, in Wilde's way, threw out to the reporters who swooped down on him: "Gentlemen, the ocean disappointed me, it is not at all as majestic as I thought." Going through customs procedures, when asked if he had anything to declare, he replied: "I have nothing to declare, except for my genius." He was confident in his irresistibility and in his talent.
Outrageous and narcissistic Oscar Wilde often heard sharp criticism, ridicule and accusations of immorality addressed to him. He either ignored the offenders, going into creativity, or with brilliance and Wilde's wit he got out of the situation. However, the mind and oratory did not save the writer in the fateful trial, where he was convicted of homosexual relationships and sent to hard labor.
Prison broke Oscar Wilde mentally and physically. But she could not kill the esthete in him to the marrow of his bones. In exile, under a false name, dying in a run-down hotel in poverty, obscurity and loneliness, he said: "Either me, or this vile flower wallpaper."
Oscar Wilde's works - "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "The Importance of Being Earnest", "The Ideal Husband", "The Woman of No Interest", "Lady Windermere's Fan" and others - have been sorted into quotes all over the world. Bright Side presents the most significant of them, according to which you can easily create an image of the London dandy, esthete and philosopher Oscar Wilde.
About people
* Most of us are not us. Our thoughts are the judgments of others; our life is mimicry; our passions quote!
* We can't stand people with the same flaws that we have.
* You love everyone, and to love everyone means not to love anyone. Everyone is equally indifferent to you.
* Positive people get on your nerves, bad people affect your imagination.
* Lies are the truth of others.
* A cynic is a person who knows the price of everything and appreciates nothing.
* A person is very embarrassed when he speaks on his own behalf. Give him a mask and he will tell you the whole truth.
* To be good means to live in harmony with oneself.
* There is a kind of voluptuousness in self-flagellation. And when we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has the right to blame us anymore.
* <...>a man who has no enemies, but who are successfully replaced by friends who secretly hate him.
* Only empty people know themselves.
About success
* The world is divided into two classes - some believe in the incredible, others do the impossible.
* Moderation is a fatal quality. Only extremes lead to success.
* Great success always requires some promiscuity in the means.
* Ambition is the last refuge of losers.
* People call their mistakes experiences.
* Be yourself, the rest of the roles are taken.
About relationships
* Falling in love begins with the fact that a person deceives himself, and ends with the fact that he deceives another
* It is not bad if friendship begins with laughter, and it is best if it ends with it.
* Selfishness does not mean living the way you want, it is a requirement for others to live the way you want it.
* Friendship between a man and a woman is impossible. Passion, enmity, adoration, love - but not friendship.
About old age
* The tragedy of old age is not that a person grows old, but that he remains young in soul.
* To regain youth, one has only to repeat all its follies.
About myself
* I like to talk about nothing. It's the only one I know anything about.
* I don't want to know what people are saying behind my back. This flatters me too much.
* I love men with a future and women with a past.
* What is fashionable is what you wear yourself. And what others wear is unfashionable.
* We're all in the gutter, but some of us are stargazing.
* The only way to get rid of temptation is to give in to it.
about religion
* Religion is a very common surrogate for faith.
* The truths of faith are not believed because they are reasonable, but because they are often repeated.
* Prayer must remain unanswered, otherwise it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.
About women
* You should never trust a woman who tells you her age. A woman who can do this is capable of anything.
* If a woman has a lot of blush on, and very few dresses, this is a sign of desperation.
* The strength of a woman is that she cannot be explained with the help of psychology. Men can be analyzed, women can only be adored.
* Women love us for our flaws. If there are a fair amount of these shortcomings, they are ready to forgive us everything, even the mind ...
* As one witty Frenchman said, women inspire us to great things, but always prevent us from doing them.
* With bad women you do not know peace, but with good women you are bored.
* Women exist to be loved, not to be understood.
About marriage
* The main harm of marriage is that it corrodes selfishness from a person. And unselfish people are colorless, they lose their individuality.
* Men marry out of fatigue, women marry out of curiosity. Both marriages are disappointing.
* Loyalty! It is the greed of the owner. There are many things we would gladly give up if not for the fear that someone else would pick them up.
* The strongest foundation for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.
About life
* Broken can only be considered a life that has stopped in its development.
* There are only two real tragedies in life: one is when you don't get what you want, and the other is when you do.
* People always laugh at their tragedies - that's the only way to endure them.
* Life is too caustic liquid. She destroys art.
* The purpose of life is self-expression. To manifest our essence in all its fullness - that's what we live for.
