Author of quotes: Oscar Wilde. Page 69
I sympathize with everything, except human misery. To him, I cannot sympathize with that. It is too ugly, too horrible, too distressing. In the universal compassion for the suffering, there is something in the highest degree unhealthy. To sympathize with the beauty, colours and pleasures of life. And the less said about the dark sides of it.
To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. And just by looking all those acrobatic stuff, what does the Truth, we can properly judge it.
Guided by reason - there is something ignoble. It means to betray the intellect.
In public life he was a loyal supporter of his leader, and in private - a supporter of good food that is well-known followed the wise rule: "to Act with the liberals and eat with the conservatives."
...how is it exciting to test the strength of their influence on the other person! Nothing can compare to it. To pour his soul into another, let her stay in it; to hear the echoes of his own thoughts, reinforced by the music of his youth and passion; to convey to another your temperament, as a subtle fluid or a peculiar flavor, is a real delight, the greatest joy, perhaps, what is given to man by our limited and vulgar age his glubokovodnye pleasures and probabilitie aspirations.
For the beautiful is always hidden some kind of tragedy. To bloom the most modest flower, worlds must endure the labor pains.
The philanthropic charity lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
American girls are as clever at concealing their parents, as English women are at their past.
Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If you're a gentleman so you have nothing to teach you enough that you know. But if you're not a gentleman, the knowledge you only harm.
In our life not have anything colorful, except for the Vice.
I wonder who invented that man is a rational animal. What a hasty judgment! The man has anything but the mind. And, in fact, it's very good!..
... when a man loses his beauty, he loses everything.
"Always"!.. What a horrible word! I shudder when I hear it. Especially like women. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. While "always" is an empty word. Between a Caprice and "eternal love" the only difference is that the Caprice lasts a little longer.
... Beauty is a form of Genius, -- is higher Genius, for it does not require understanding. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. The beauty is undeniable. She has Supreme right to rule and makes kings of those who have it.
... need to know this great secret of life -- to cure the soul by the senses, and the senses by means of the soul.
