513 Quotes About Oscar-wilde

There were poisons so subtle that to know their properties one had to sicken of them. There were maladies so strange that one had to pass through them if one sought to understand their nature.

Du Bois sighed theatrically. “It’s as if Oscar Wilde never died for our sins.

Gördüğümüz her şeyde simgeler bulmak akıllıca değil. Hayatı imkânsız kılar bu.

Ne eşyalara ne de insanlara bakmalı. Sadece aynalara bakmalı. Çünkü aynalar bize sadece maskeleri gösterir…

Tanrı hiçbir zaman gizlenmez. O kendisini her zaman ve her şeyde gösterir. Tanrı iyi olanın içinde olduğu gibi kötünün de içindedir.

Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Reading the very best writers—let us say Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolstoy—is not going to make us better citizens. Art is perfectly useless, according to the sublime Oscar Wilde, who was right about everything. He also told us that all bad poetry is sincere. Had I the power to do so, I would command that these words be engraved above every gate at every university, so that each student might ponder the splendor of the insight.

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

Weak? Oh, I am sick of hearing that phrase. Sick of using it about others. Weak? Do you really think, that it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations that it requires strength, strength and courage, to yield to. To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not-there is no weakness in that. There is a horrible, terrible courage. I had that courage.