855 ordspråk av Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde föddes den October 16th 1854 och dog den 30 November 1900 - Irish writer
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 The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all. |
| The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company |
| The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. |
| The man had killed the thing he loved, And so he had to die |
| The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world. |
| The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him. |
| The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing |
| The mere mechanical technique of acting can be taught, but the spirit that is to give life to lifeless forms must be born in a man. No dramatic college can teach its pupils to think or to feel. It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression. |
| The mind of a the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value. |
| The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others. |
| The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you. |
| The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature. |
| The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everything. |
| The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out. |
| The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then, your body and your fat are really good friends |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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