Oscar Wilde quotes

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To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. (Любовь к себе - это начало романа длящегося всю жизнь)
A true friend stabs you in the front. (XDDD Видимо ответ на выражение A true friend never stabs you in the back)
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
Everything popular is wrong.
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. (Я настолько умен, что временами не понимаю ни слова из того, что я говорю)
If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism. (Если притворяешься хорошим, тебе верят. Если плохим - нет. Ну что за идиотский человеческий оптимизм)
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. (У меня самые простые вкусы - я всегда довольствуюсь лучшим)
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Life is too important to be taken seriously. (Жизнь слишком важна чтобы относится к ней серьезно)
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. ( Простая чистая правда очень редко бывает чистой и уж никогда простой)
The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life. (Мир стал подозрителен ко всему, что выглядит как счастливая супружеская жизнь)
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast. (Жизнь конечно театр, но актеры в нем хреновые)
There is no sin except stupidity.
These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.
When good Americans die they go to Paris.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. (Когда люди со мной соглашаются, я чувствую, что где-то я ошибся)
Who, being loved, is poor?
Women are made to be loved, not understood.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers. ( Когда боги хотят наказать нас, ониотвечают на наши молитвы)

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