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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 We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language. |
| We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks. |
| We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. |
| We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim / objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death. |
| We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow. |
| We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments. |
| What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say. |
| What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land. |
| What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. |
| What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere? |
| What is said of a man is nothing. The point is, who says it. |
| What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics. |
| What nonsense people talk about happy marriages! A man can be happy with any woman so long as he doesn't love her |
| What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities. |
| What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise |
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