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Danh ngôn của Oscar Wilde (Sứ mệnh: 1)

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
True friends stab you in the front.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Who, being loved, is poor?
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.
I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.
No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
I can resist everything except temptation.
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Biography lends to death a new terror.
All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.
As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.
It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Romantic art deals with the exception and with the individual. Good people, belonging as they do to the normal, and so, commonplace type, are artistically uninteresting.
Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.
A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.
Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances, invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth.
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.