The only way to get rid of temptation. Best Oscar Wilde quotes

She lies in bed, wrapped up in a thin blanket, and wonders about what will happen next. A curious male whisper pulls her out of her sleepy floating thoughts.
- Hiding from me? Leo says softly. Even through her "bed shelter" the girl feels his hot breath and notes of undisguised annoyance in his voice. He feels guilty for what happened. Perhaps if not for him, things would have turned out differently. Maybe things would be easier. True, much more painful for him, but easier for both of them. But, despite his attack of guilt, he, oddly enough, does not worry about himself at all. All anxiety is directed at her. She's the only one that worries him now.
- No, from the world. - Uncertainly answers the girl and yet pulls her head out from under the covers. Directly above her face, a face she knows well is leaning. Blue eyes, full of care and happiness, look at her point-blank, looking at the specks of the iris. Dark, slightly curly hair is disheveled, some strands stick out funny, as if stretching upwards. His short stubble does not irritate her at all, on the contrary, she fell in love with her, as one falls in love with a damp smell after rain or the first snow in late autumn.
- Matty, are you sorry we did this? - Concernedly he asks a question, stepping back a little in order to better recognize the reaction to his phrase. The girl shakes her head in response.
“I don’t regret what happened tonight, it’s just that things have become more difficult now. I'm not talking about the fact that I'm a teenage hacker and you're an adult half-human half-robot. - She smiles fervently, thereby defusing the situation. - And if I was sorry, I would have put you out on the street long ago, without even letting you get dressed. Matts slides his hand under the covers, finds his warm hand resting on her bare waist, and squeezes it tightly.
"Then what's the matter, can you tell me?" - He is interested and this time moves closer to her.
- I'll tell you if you stop fidgeting on the bed. - The girl looks menacingly at him and waits for him to follow her order.
- I'll stop. - The man answers impatiently and waits for an explanation.
- You just left us then, wanting to make an important decision about future fate synths. We did not know how long you were disappearing and when you would return, but we let you go, in the depths of our souls bitterly admitting the possibility that you would not return at all. - The girl took a breath and lowered her gaze, then, after lying down for a while in thought, she pressed the blanket harder to her body and sat up on the bed. The man followed her example and also accepted sitting position. Now he was a little behind the girl and could only see her back and fluffy, short hair that gleamed in the moonlight. - When next time you will disappear and for how long, no one knows. She shook her head dejectedly and, sighing heavily, whispered:
- I just don't want to get attached. Leo didn't see her face anyway, but she covered it with her hands as if to be more secure. At that moment, she opened up to him from the other side. So sensual and vulnerable, ready to immediately disappear on the spot, like the first snow. Near computers, she always held the position of a glib hacker, ready to break laws and risk everything to achieve a goal. Now she is completely different, helpless and depressed. Leo had not seen such pure and sincere emotions for a long time. He was pleased that Matilda was not afraid to open up to him from such a side. The man moved closer to her and tossed her hair back. Resting his chin on her bare shoulder, he gently wrapped his arms around her waist.
- Look, I don't want to deceive you. I do not know how long we will stay here, when we leave and when we return. - He said quietly and, briefly interrupted, sighed. - But I can promise you one thing: no matter what happens, I will return. I will return to you. I will return to you, because I also do not regret what happened today. The man noticed how Matts slowly turned her head and a vague smile popped up on her face. He doesn't need wires or computers to understand what she's remembering right now. Their meeting, not the very first, but the one that was after their long separation.
***
- Matts, come on, wait. What did I do? - Harun shouts incomprehensibly after the girl, who is trying to leave the place that is disgusting to her as soon as possible. She stops and slowly turns around to face the guy, who, barely catching up with her, is trying to catch his breath. A couple of angry looks that darted in his direction do not at all help the guy understand that she does not want to see him.
- What? Seriously? - After a while, she yells hot-tempered. - You really don't understand? Well, I'll explain to you: YOU KISSED ME. - She rigidly highlights each syllable of the phrase and wants to leave, but then the next remark of her friend makes her fall into a furious stupor.
- What's wrong with that? - With a slight grin, he says and approaches her. - You also kissed me before, but I didn’t slap you in the face and didn’t freak out all over the corridor, as you did today. He reproachfully looks at his girlfriend and patiently waits for her response. Maybe it will be a stream of endless hatred and bestial cruelty. He is ready for this, although he is counting on a warmer response. To begin with, the standard "Sorry, I was wrong" will do, and then, if everything goes according to plan, Harun will no longer be alone.
- Did you want to answer something? - The guy asks quite enough, but his mood deteriorates sharply when he realizes that the girl is in this moment just not interested in it. She stares intently somewhere, as if through him. - Matty? - He calls out to her and snaps his fingers in front of her eyes, but in response the girl only waves her off.
- Now is not up to you. - She mutters businesslike and, bypassing her friend, goes alone down the street. She longs to achieve a certain goal, so she goes ahead, touching the passers-by with her shoulder ("It seems that a bruise will form in the evening" - flies in her head) and passing their angry comments past her ears. She walks like this, without slowing down, until suddenly she says:
- Leo. - There is no doubt in her voice, she is completely confident in who she saw recently and who she sees now.
- Matty? The man stops abruptly and turns to face her. He is wearing a new dark hat and black light jacket. The man was clearly in a hurry.
- What are you doing here? You must have left the city. She narrows her eyes dubiously, as if scanning the unfortunate fellow caught off guard.
Yes, but I had to go back. We forgot something. - He says stiffly and is about to continue on his way, but Matilda stops him:
- When are you leaving? And will you be back soon? she asks. Leo sighs softly and runs a hand over his face in annoyance. He didn't want to meet her. He didn't want to see her more than anyone else. But just today, he decided to go exactly along the street on which her school is located. And now? How to get rid of her?
- I don't know, maybe we'll leave tomorrow.
- Can I see Anita? - She asks with a share of hope in her eyes and patiently waits for an answer.
- She's not in town. He didn't want to say that, so as not to arouse unnecessary suspicion. Although suspicions would be entirely appropriate.
- Then who is there? - She, fixated on the conversation, does not notice how she takes a small step towards the man. Although it can not be called a step. Just one leg absurdly slipped on the pavement, and the other after a while pulled up to her. The girl thoughtfully tilts her head to one side, trying to determine the cause of the strange behavior of the interlocutor. He is visibly nervous and seems to look offendedly to the side, looking for the right moment to escape.
- Here am I. - Awkwardly he answers and again makes an attempt to retreat. Unsuccessfully.
- I already understood. Who else? - Matilda stares at him, as if scanning the body and analyzing his every movement. The man with a sharp movement straightens his unbuttoned jacket, as if trying to hide from the annoying teenager.
- Are you interrogating? - He asks a counter question, holding back his anger with the last of his strength.
- I'm just curious. We helped you at the risk of our own skins, and I think we have a right to know if you're okay. - The girl flashes. She knows that Anita also saved the life of one of the Matts family members, which means that in some sense they are all even with each other. However, now helping special synths is her last trump card in conversation.
You know, you're like a pain in the ass. - Unable to stand it, Leo shouts all over the street. Some passers-by throw annoyed glances at the quarreling couple, but those do not care about all levels of decency. Now it is only important to find out the relationship and dot the i's, which is exactly what they are doing.
- Oh, compared to my brother, I'm a very nice thorn in my side, trust me. - Matty actively gesticulates with his hands and at times raises his voice so much that he begins to seem completely alien and unfamiliar to her.
- Well, I believe and wish you good luck. And I must go. - Trying to end the causeless argument, he says as calmly as possible and, spreading his arms, turns around. "Please, just don't say anything. Be quiet," he mentally pleads, but apparently his brain signals aren't reaching the teenager.
- Where are you in such a hurry?
- Away from you. He barks menacingly, but immediately regrets it. His last sentence was redundant.
“Are you so disgusted to communicate with me. - There is no question in her tone, she seems to be voicing another observation. Her voice is quiet and timid. She speaks timidly and very quietly, almost in a whisper - she does not want to betray the emptiness that slowly seeps into her soul. Like a midge on windshield. Sudden and fatal pain. Many in her place burst into a new wave of hysteria, sobbed, or maybe just ran away from this place and this conversation. But Matilda stands motionless and looks at her interlocutor, she has already said everything. She strong girl, ready to face the whole truth, even if it brings her a lot of grief. Although she may be weak. Weak, because it is not easy to leave while her soul is ruthlessly trampled and mixed with dirt. Weak because she doesn't even have the strength to exhale.
- Now you will understand. - Leo sighs deeply, sharply moves closer to the girl and kisses her tightly compressed lips, along the way clasping her face red with excitement. This kiss is short, literally for a couple of seconds their lips are intertwined together. Matty doesn't even have time to answer properly, to touch his body with his hands, as the man is already pulling away. He knows: today he got excited a lot of times in vain, but now he has crossed all possible limits, which he has been trying to build for weeks into a reliable, solid wall.
- And it's all? Is that why you're avoiding me? - She asks, stunned, when the man turns away anxiously, trying to realize the horror of his act. Of course, Matilda did not want to answer the man's trick at all. She would have cursed hard now, but she realized in time that it would be completely out of place. The girl is seething with indignation, but it's not Leo's fault, it's just for Matty two kisses with two different people Half an hour is a bit overkill.
- Is not that enough for you? - He doesn't look at Matilda, he just can't look after what he did. "She's a child who even in life does not understand anything" - This thought gets stuck in his head and eats tightly into the subconscious, causing him to experience unbearable pangs of conscience. He doesn't need the love of a teenager. He has a family to protect and he doesn't need anything else. Or is it necessary?
- Matts? - Lostly he calls out to the girl when he does not hear any answer from her. But she still doesn't respond. The man turns to lecture her on integrity and decency, but finds no one in front of him. The girl disappeared into the crowd of passers-by. She just left without saying a word. - So even better. - With some relief, Leo sighs and decides not to stand in the middle of the street, as if rooted to the spot. He also had cases from which he was successfully distracted. But, after a little reflection, the man understands with a degree of dejection that he will not do work today. Things have already been waiting for him for a couple of days and will wait a little more, unlike an emotional teenager.

He resolutely enters an abandoned dilapidated room full of a bunch of old unsightly computers and finds something more or less functional among them, digs in it for a long time, repairs it, until he finally finishes the job. Quickly finds the nearest access to the Internet and connects, then finds the site he needs, enters his login and password. Patiently waiting for the login to take place. When the program recognizes the user, Leo quickly clicks on one of the pop-up icons. "Private messages". He taps the keys intently, and then sends a message to the right addressee. "She will read it soon" - He thinks excitedly and waits for a response from the girl. You don't have to wait long. She is ready to discuss what happened. And the rest will have to wait.
They already know how this frank conversation will end - with something no less frank. Let everything be trite, like in Hollywood films. Sometimes people in life lack a little pleasant banality to become truly happy.
***
- Have you thought about it again? the man whispers softly into Matts' ear. She twitches her shoulder slightly at his breath tickling her skin. It is so strange for her to understand that this whole story happened to her. With a girl who lives in the world of computers and sometimes goes to her friends' parties. Now it all seems so petty to her. She is not the kind of teenager who will despair because she will not be able to take her boyfriend to one of these parties or tell her friends about him. She will not worry about the fact that her lover may soon leave her for quite some time. long term because now she knows he'll be back. He will definitely return.

The joy of life is in the soul, which over time becomes younger and younger. The tragedy of life is in the body, aging and dying.

A man marries a second time only if he truly loved the previous one. A woman will marry twice for revenge on her ex-husband.

A man abandoned by his soul mate does not know how to live on. Therefore, it often looks ridiculous and strange in the eyes of others.

The only exact scientific discovery- everything changes. There is nothing permanent. Accepting and honoring some laws, postulates, theories is the same as rejecting progress and development. But nature must evolve. Without constant growth, humanity will simply die out. O. Wilde

Those who live in the past have no future.

A person cannot control his sexual desire. Change does not exist. Any intrigues “on the side” are all just physiology. No matter how young people restrain themselves, they cannot become faithful. The old people madly want to “left” - but it doesn’t work anymore.

Continuation famous aphorisms and O. Wilde quotes read on the pages:

I like to talk about nothing - it's the only thing I understand.

Imagination is given to a person to console him with what he does not have, and a sense of humor is given to console him with what he has.

Self-sacrifice must be punishable by law. It demoralizes those for whom they make sacrifices.

It is very dangerous to meet a woman who fully understands you. It usually ends in marriage.

Loyalty! It is the greed of the owner. We would gladly give up a lot if it were not for the fear that someone else would pick it up ...

Questions are never indiscreet. Unlike answers.

Time is a waste of money.

Our only duty to history is to constantly rewrite it.

I am always very friendly to those who are indifferent to me.

Everything that is beautiful in this life is either immoral, or illegal, or leads to obesity.

Being in society is just boring. And being out of society is already a tragedy.

It's terribly hard work doing nothing.

If you want to spoil a person, start re-educating him.

America is a paradise for women. That is why, like Eve in her time, they strive to get out of there as soon as possible.

Life is too complicated to be taken seriously.

Positive people get on your nerves, bad people affect your imagination.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

All charming people spoiled, this is the secret of their attractiveness.

Do you know him? I know him so well that I haven't spoken to him in ten years.

People always destroy what they love the most.

A thought that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called a thought.

English common sense is the inherited stupidity of the fathers.

Giving advice is always bad, but good advice no one will forgive you.

Everyone sympathizes with the misfortunes of their friends, and only a few rejoice in their successes.

Friendship is more tragic than love - it dies much longer.

It's always nice not to go where you're expected.

England and America are two nations separated by a common language.

Interest in ethics is evidence of belated mental development.

The only difference between a saint and a sinner is that the saint has a past and the sinner has a future.

If a person judges something sensibly, this is a sure sign that he himself is incompetent in this area.

The purpose of art is to reveal beauty and hide the artist.

American women get tired of long races, but they are great in steeplechase.

Selfishness is not that a person lives as he wants, but that he makes others live according to his principles.

I do not at all want to know what they say behind my back - I already have a rather high opinion of myself.

When Good is powerless, it is Evil.

Be yourself. Other roles are already filled.

Do you know how great female curiosity is? Almost the same as men's.

When the gods want to punish us, they listen to our prayers.

To be natural, you must be able to pretend.

The only thing you will never regret is our mistakes and delusions.

When you have winning cards in your hand, you should play fair.

Most of us are not us. Our thoughts are the judgments of others; our life is mimicry; our passions - quote!

Life is short, art is endless.

Loyalty in love, like the consistency and immutability of thoughts, is simply proof of impotence.

Everything can be experienced except death.

This is what angers me in women. Be sure to give them a good man. Moreover, if he is good from the very beginning, they will never love him. They need to fall in love with him bad, and leave him - disgustingly good.

I have very unpretentious taste - the best is enough.

Truth is rarely pure and never unambiguous.

Only two tragedies are possible in life: the first is to get what you dream of, the second is not to get.

Christ died not to save people, but to teach them how to save one another.

It is better to adore than to be admired. To endure someone's adoration is boring and painful.

Whenever a person commits stupidity, he does it from the most noble motives.

Children begin with love for their parents. Growing up, they begin to judge them. Sometimes they forgive them.

When they release me, I will simply move from one prison to another.

America was discovered many times before Columbus, but no one was told about it.

If a person tells the truth, sooner or later he will be brought to clean water.

The American is the Don Quixote of common sense, for he is practical to such an extent that he is completely out of touch with reality.

Most marriages break up nowadays primarily because of the good sense of the husband. Indeed, how can a woman be happy with a man who considers her an absolutely rational being.

Nothing is impossible in Russia except reforms.

There is only one sin - stupidity.

Only empty people know themselves.

How can a woman be happy with a man who considers her an absolutely rational being?

We all sit in the gutter, but some of us are stargazing.

In everything that people take seriously, you need to see the comic side of things.

The ideal man should speak to us like goddesses and treat us like children.

A woman will flirt with anyone, as long as they look at her at that time.

It makes no sense to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or stupid.

Forgive your enemies - this is The best way get them out of it.

If the gods want to punish a person, they fulfill his desires.

When we are happy, we are always kind; but when we are kind, we are not always happy.

In its defense, journalism can refer to the great Darwinian law of the survival of the mediocre.

It's none of my business. That is why it interests me. My affairs always make me sad. I prefer others.

Good advice I always pass on to others. There is nothing else to do with them.

The secret to being boring is being able to tell everything about yourself.

You should never trust a woman who tells you her age. A woman capable of this is capable of anything.

Other people's dramas are always unbearably banal.

Being in society is just boring. And being out of society is already a tragedy.

With each of our extraordinary actions, we make an enemy for ourselves. To be popular, you have to be mediocre.

Atheism needs religion just as much as faith.

Democracy is fooling the people with the help of the people for the good of the people.

Enemies should be chosen with special care.

The burden of our day is too heavy for man to bear alone, and the pain of the world is too deep for man to bear alone.

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If we men married the women we deserve, it would be bad for us!

Life is too serious a thing to be taken seriously.

I can resist anything but temptation.

Being selfish does not mean living the way you want. It means asking others to live the life you want.

All men are monsters. The only thing left for women is to feed them better.

In our age, people read too much, it prevents them from being wise.

Ugly women are always jealous of their husbands; beautiful - not before, they are jealous of strangers.

Life gives a person, at best, a single unique moment, and the secret of happiness is to repeat this moment as often as possible.

It's good when friendship starts with a smile. But it's even better if it ends with her.

If you want to know what a woman really thinks, look at her, but don't listen.

Most of us are not us. Our thoughts are the judgments of others; our life is mimicry; our passions - quote!

If anything is worth doing, it is only what is considered impossible.

Marriage without love is terrible. But there is something even worse: it is a marriage in which there is love, but only on one side; fidelity, but only on one side. In such a marriage of two hearts, one is undoubtedly broken.

I live in constant fear of being misunderstood.

Every woman is a rebel by nature, and she rebels exclusively against herself.

A real friend will stab you in the front.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to give in to it.

Whenever a person commits stupidity, he does it from the most noble motives.

Friendship between a man and a woman is impossible. Passion, enmity, adoration, love - but not friendship.

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Oscar Wilde, an outstanding English writer, poet and playwright, was born on October 16

A master of spectacular aphorisms and ingenious paradoxes, Oscar Wilde is one of the most quoted classics on the internet. As did his friend.

Witty handsome man long hair Oscar Wilde was the darling of society even during his lifetime. The writer's contemporaries claimed that in his presence no one else was paid attention at all. An excellent interlocutor, a skillful orator, witty, with perfect diction, he charmed his listeners with his lectures and stories. Many of them remained unwritten: Wilde did not have the habit of writing down everything that came to his mind.

Even before declaring himself in literature, Oscar Wilde made a revolution in fashion. He appeared in society in personally invented mind-blowing outfits. Today it was short culottes and silk stockings, tomorrow - a vest embroidered with flowers, the day after tomorrow - lemon gloves combined with a lush lace frill. An indispensable accessory was a carnation in a buttonhole, painted green.

Discarding all religious and moral prejudices, Oscar Wilde sang the cult of beauty. IN Victorian England 19th century - it was unforgivably outrageous.

In early 1882, Wilde went to conquer America. He got off the ship in the port of New York and, in Wilde's way, threw out to the reporters who swooped down on him: "Gentlemen, the ocean disappointed me, it is not at all as majestic as I thought." Going through customs procedures, when asked if he had anything to declare, he replied: "I have nothing to declare, except for my genius." He was confident in his irresistibility and in his talent.

Outrageous and narcissistic Oscar Wilde often heard in his address sharp criticism, ridicule and accusations of immorality. He either ignored the offenders, going into creativity, or with brilliance and Wilde's wit he got out of the situation. However, the mind and oratory did not save the writer at the fateful trial, where he was convicted of homosexual relationships and sent to hard labor.

Prison broke Oscar Wilde mentally and physically. But she could not kill the esthete in him to the marrow of his bones. In exile, under a false name, dying in a run-down hotel in poverty, obscurity and loneliness, he said: "Either me, or this vile flower wallpaper."

Oscar Wilde's works - "The Picture of Dorian Gray", "The Importance of Being Earnest", "An Ideal Husband", "A Woman noteworthy”,“ Lady Windermere’s Fan ”and others - all over the world were sorted into quotes. website presents the most significant of them, according to which one can easily form an image of the London dandy, esthete and philosopher Oscar Wilde.

About people

• Most of us are not us. Our thoughts are the judgments of others; our life is mimicry; our passions - quote!
• We can't stand people with the same flaws that we have.
• You love everyone, and to love everyone means not to love anyone. Everyone is equally indifferent to you.
• Positive people act on the nerves, bad people - on the imagination.
• Lies are the truth of other people.
• A cynic is a person who knows the price of everything and appreciates nothing.
• A person is very embarrassed when he speaks on his own behalf. Give him a mask and he will tell you the whole truth.
• To be good means to live in harmony with oneself.
• There is a kind of voluptuousness in self-flagellation. And when we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has the right to blame us anymore.
• <...>a man who has no enemies, but who are successfully replaced by friends who secretly hate him.
• Only empty people know themselves.

About success

• The world is divided into two classes - some believe in the incredible, others do the impossible.
• Moderation is a fatal property. Only extremes lead to success.
• Great success always requires some promiscuity in the means.
• Ambition is the last refuge of losers.
• People call their mistakes experiences.
• Be yourself, the rest of the roles are taken.

About relationships

• Falling in love begins with the fact that a person deceives himself, and ends with the fact that he deceives another
• It is not bad if friendship begins with laughter, and it is best if it ends with it.
• Selfishness does not mean living the way you want, it is a requirement for others to live the way you want it.
• Friendship between a man and a woman is impossible. Passion, enmity, adoration, love - but not friendship.

About old age

• The tragedy of old age is not that a person grows old, but that he remains young in soul.
• To regain youth, one has only to repeat all its follies.

About Me

• I like to talk about nothing. It's the only one I know anything about.
• I don't want to know what people are saying behind my back. This flatters me too much.
• I love men with a future and women with a past.
• What is fashionable is what you wear yourself. And what others wear is unfashionable.
• We're all in the gutter, but some of us are stargazing.
• The only way to get rid of temptation is to give in to it.

about religion

• Religion is a very common surrogate for faith.
• The truths of faith are not believed because they are reasonable, but because they are often repeated.
• Prayer must remain unanswered, otherwise it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

About women

• You should never trust a woman who tells you her age. A woman who can do this is capable of anything.
• If a woman has a lot of blush on, and very few dresses, this is a sign of despair.
• The strength of a woman is that she cannot be explained with the help of psychology. Men can be analyzed, women can only be adored.
• Women love us for our flaws. If there are a fair amount of these shortcomings, they are ready to forgive us everything, even the mind ...
• As one witty Frenchman said, women inspire us to great things, but always prevent us from doing them.
• With bad women you do not know peace, but with good women you are bored.
• Women exist to be loved, not to be understood.

About marriage

• The main harm of marriage is that it corrodes selfishness from a person. And unselfish people are colorless, they lose their individuality.
• Men marry out of fatigue, women marry out of curiosity. Both marriages are disappointing.
• Loyalty! It is the greed of the owner. There are many things we would gladly give up if not for the fear that someone else would pick them up.
• The strongest foundation for marriage is mutual misunderstanding.

About life

• Broken can only be considered a life that has stopped in its development.
• There are only two real tragedies in life: one is when you don't get what you want, and the second is when you get it.
• People always laugh at their tragedies - this is the only way carry them.
• Life is too caustic liquid. She destroys art.
• The purpose of life is self-expression. To manifest our essence in all its fullness - that's what we live for.

Time is a waste of money.

I can resist anything but temptation.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to give in to it.

It's always nice not to go where you're expected.

Punctuality is the thief of time.

Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future.

Self-love is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ("Ideal husband")

Be yourself, the rest of the roles are taken.

What you really need to know, no one will teach.

Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women dream to be latest novel men.

... Life is too important to talk about it seriously.

You love everyone, and to love everyone is to love no one. You are all equally indifferent.

Everything can be experienced except death.

I do not at all want to know what they say behind my back - I already have a rather high opinion of myself.

Our only duty to history is to constantly rewrite it.

Patriotism is the religion of the mad.

I hate logic, it is always banal and often convincing.

Friendship is more tragic than love - it dies much longer.

All men are monsters. The only thing left is to feed them better.

The Lord, creating man, somewhat overestimated his strength.

Love begins when we deceive ourselves and ends when we deceive another.

Whenever a person commits stupidity, he does it from the most noble motives.

Ugly women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful - not before, they are jealous of strangers.

When they talk about you, then only one thing can be worse than this - when they don’t talk about you.

If a person judges something sensibly, this is a sure sign that he himself is incompetent in this area.

Love must forgive all sins, but not the sin against love.

Modern democracy has only one dangerous enemy- a good monarch.

Philosophy teaches us to deal with the failures of others with equanimity.

Naturalness is just a pose, and also the most annoying of all that I know.

As soon as the cannibals begin to threaten death from exhaustion, the Lord, in His infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary.

What a beautiful moon today! Yes, but if you had seen her before the war...

When they immediately agree with me, I feel that I am wrong.

The beauty of the soul grows to gain the gift of seeing God ("The Holy Harlot, or the Woman Covered with Jewels")

Prayer must remain unanswered, otherwise it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

Society often forgives the offender. But not a dreamer.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

A cynic is a person who knows the price of everything, but does not know the value.

A poet can endure anything but a typo.

Truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Now a good upbringing is only a hindrance. It shields you from too much.

It's hard to avoid the future.

The foundation of literary friendship is the exchange of poisoned glasses.

Other people's dramas are always unbearably banal.

I'm dying as I lived - beyond my means.

Life is never fair. For most of us, it's probably better that way.

Motherhood is a fact. Fatherhood is an opinion.

Every desire that we try to suppress wanders in our soul and poisons us. And having sinned, a person gets rid of the attraction to sin, for realization is the path to purification. After that, only memories of pleasure and the voluptuousness of repentance remain. The only way to get rid of temptation is to give in to it.

Only intellect ennobles a person.

In everything that people take seriously, you need to see the comic side of things.

Conscience - official name cowardice.

The only thing you will never regret is our mistakes and delusions.

The concept of good and evil is accessible only to those who are deprived of all other concepts.

Loyalty in love, like consistency and immutability of thoughts, is simply proof of impotence.

A person must absorb the colors of life, but never remember the details. The details are always banal.

Only words give reality to phenomena.

It makes no sense to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or stupid.

On the ancient Greek portal ancient world it was written: know thyself. On the portal modern world will be written: be yourself.

The burden of our day is too heavy for man to bear alone, and the pain of the world is too deep for man to bear alone. ("Young King")

People always laugh at their tragedies - that's the only way to endure them.

The world is divided into two classes - some believe in the incredible, others do the impossible.

Moderation is a fatal quality. Only extremes lead to success.

Society has a truly insatiable curiosity about everything that does not deserve curiosity.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its shame.

Public opinion triumphs where thought slumbers.

Atheism needs religion just as much as faith.

Most of us are not us. Our thoughts are the judgments of others; our life is mimicry; our passions quote!

Being in society is just boring. And being out of society is already a tragedy.

Those who see the difference between soul and body have neither body nor soul.

Killing is always a miss. You should never do anything that you can't talk to people about after dinner.

Heal the soul with sensations, and let the soul heal the sensations.

Laughter is a good start to a friendship, and laughter is a good way to end it.

Selfishness does not mean living the way you want, it is a requirement for others to live the way you want it.

I always surprise myself. It's the only thing worth living for.

What is true in a person's life is not his deeds, but the legends that surround him. Legends should never be destroyed. Through them we can vaguely see the true face of a person.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, but absolute sincerity is simply fatal. ("The Critic as an Artist")

Doing nothing is one of the most difficult things to do, the most difficult and the most intellectual. ("The Critic as an Artist")

There is only one sin - stupidity. ("The Critic as an Artist")

Behind the beautiful there is always some tragedy hidden. In order for the humblest flower to bloom, the worlds must endure birth pangs.

People call their mistakes experiences.

As children, we love our parents. As adults, we judge them.

…what does it profit a man to gain the whole world if he loses his own soul?

We consider fashionable what we ourselves wear and unfashionable what others wear.

Only two tragedies are possible in life: the first is to get what you dream of, the second is not to get.

The beauty of the past is that it is past.

To regain my youth, I am ready to do everything - just not to get up early, not to do gymnastics and not to be a useful member of society.

Sometimes what we consider dead does not want to die for a long time. (\"The Picture of Dorian Grey\")

I can't stand vulgar realism in literature. The man who calls a shovel a shovel should be made to work with it - that's all he's good for. (Portrait of Dorian Gray)

Fate does not send us messengers - for this she is wise enough or cruel enough. (\"The Picture of Dorian Grey\")

IN real world facts, sinners are not punished, righteous people are not rewarded. Success comes to the strong, failure to the weak. That's all. (\"The Picture of Dorian Grey\")