“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“When the Gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“The error all women commit. Why can’t you women love us, faults
and all? Why do you place us on monstrous pedestals? We have all feet of
clay, women as well as men; but when we men love women, we love them
knowing their weaknesses, their follies, their imperfections, love them all
the more, it may be, for that reason. It is not the perfect, but the imperfect,
who have need of love. It is when we are wounded by our own hands,
or by the hands of others, that love should come to cure us – else what use
is love at all? All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All
lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon. A man’s love is like that.
It is wider, larger, more human than a woman’s. Women think that they
are making ideals of men. What they are making of us are false idols
merely. You made your false idol of me, and I had not the courage to
come down, show you my wounds, tell you my weaknesses. I was afraid
that I might lose your love, as I have lost it now.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.
And falsehoods the truths of other people.
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“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.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“You are Beautiful when you are happy”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“Then I am sorry I did not stay away longer I like being missed.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
“It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde
Born place: in Dublin, Ireland
Born date October 16, 1854
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“You have made my life better by just simply existing.”
― Natasha Friend, quote from My Life in Black and White
“This is the reality of the human heart, the inevitability of two sinful people pledging to live together, with all their faults, for the rest of their lives.”
― Gary L. Thomas, quote from Sacred Marriage: Celebrating Marriage as a Spiritual Discipline
“El poder -dicen- es como un violín. Se toma con la izquierda y se toca con la derecha.”
― Eduardo Galeano, quote from Days and Nights of Love and War
“[There is] a widespread approach to ideas which Objectivism repudiates altogether: agnosticism. I mean this term in a sense which applies to the question of God, but to many other issues also, such as extra-sensory perception or the claim that the stars influence man’s destiny. In regard to all such claims, the agnostic is the type who says, “I can’t prove these claims are true, but you can’t prove they are false, so the only proper conclusion is: I don’t know; no one knows; no one can know one way or the other.”
The agnostic viewpoint poses as fair, impartial, and balanced. See how many fallacies you can find in it. Here are a few obvious ones: First, the agnostic allows the arbitrary into the realm of human cognition. He treats arbitrary claims as ideas proper to consider, discuss, evaluate—and then he regretfully says, “I don’t know,” instead of dismissing the arbitrary out of hand. Second, the onus-of-proof issue: the agnostic demands proof of a negative in a context where there is no evidence for the positive. “It’s up to you,” he says, “to prove that the fourth moon of Jupiter did not cause your sex life and that it was not a result of your previous incarnation as the Pharaoh of Egypt.” Third, the agnostic says, “Maybe these things will one day be proved.” In other words, he asserts possibilities or hypotheses with no jot of evidential basis.
The agnostic miscalculates. He thinks he is avoiding any position that will antagonize anybody. In fact, he is taking a position which is much more irrational than that of a man who takes a definite but mistaken stand on a given issue, because the agnostic treats arbitrary claims as meriting cognitive consideration and epistemological respect. He treats the arbitrary as on a par with the rational and evidentially supported. So he is the ultimate epistemological egalitarian: he equates the groundless and the proved. As such, he is an epistemological destroyer. The agnostic thinks that he is not taking any stand at all and therefore that he is safe, secure, invulnerable to attack. The fact is that his view is one of the falsest—and most cowardly—stands there can be.”
― Leonard Peikoff, quote from Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand
“Никой не страда повече, отколкото трябва.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from South of No North
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