“Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from The Complete Fairy Tales
“Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from The Complete Fairy Tales
“I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
"Then you should certainly lecture on Philosophy," said the Dragon-fly”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from The Complete Fairy Tales
“For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran out into the garden.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from The Complete Fairy Tales
“Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who came after him ruled evilly.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from The Complete Fairy Tales
“Besides, if Hans came here, he might ask me to let him have some flour on credit, and that I could not do. Flour is one thing, and friendship is another, and they should not be confused. Why, the words are spelled differently, and mean quite different things. Everyone can see that.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from The Complete Fairy Tales
“Injustice has parcelled out the world, nor is there equal division of aught save of sorrow.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from The Complete Fairy Tales
“- Колко глупаво нещо е любовта! — рече студентът, когато си тръгна. — Тя не е и наполовина така полезна, както логиката, защото нищо не доказва, винаги разправя неща, които няма да станат, и те кара да вярваш в неща, които не са верни. Всъщност тя е съвсем непрактична, а понеже в нашия век да бъдеш практичен значи всичко, аз ще се върна към философията и ще изучавам метафизика.
И той се върна в стаята си, издърпа голяма прашна книга и седна да чете.”
― Oscar Wilde, quote from The Complete Fairy Tales
Oscar Wilde
Born place: in Dublin, Ireland
Born date October 16, 1854
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“Pitch tugged at Orias’s coat. “Don’t. Don’t do it.” Mactalde set his goblet on a nearby table and rose. The fire lit his face from the bottom up. “You’ve come so far on your quest to save your people. I don’t think you can abandon them now.” And the gut-wrenching truth was ... he couldn’t.”
― K.M. Weiland, quote from Dreamlander
“Although relatively speaking the right hemisphere takes a more pessimistic view of the self, it is also more realistic about it.457 There is evidence that (a) those who are somewhat depressed are more realistic, including in self-evaluation; and, see above, that (b) depression is (often) a condition of relative hemisphere asymmetry, favouring the right hemisphere.458 Even schizophrenics have more insight into their condition in proportion to the degree that they have depressive symptoms.459 The evidence is that this is not because insight makes you depressed, but because being depressed gives you insight.”
― quote from The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
“When does it stop-the longing to be mothered?”
― Emery Lord, quote from The Names They Gave Us
“When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.”
― Adele Faber, quote from How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk
“Es fácil imaginar que la enorme capacidad humana para las actividades sociales, para manipular a los demás, para la política, y para la acción concertada del tipo que da como resultado grandes y complejas sociedades, surge de esta habilidad para ponerse en el lugar del otro y manipular la atención y el interés de esa otra persona.”
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