O Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Ιρλανδος στη καταγωγη,ειναι ενας απο τους μεγαλυτερους συγγραφεις ολων των εποχων.Υπηρξε ο κυριοτερος εκπροσωπος του αισθητισμου.Εκτος ομως απο το συγγραφικο του ταλεντο,αυτο που κυριως τον εκανε γνωστο ηταν ο εξαιρετικα ιδιορρυθμος χαρακτηρας του.Ενας μεγαλος δανδης της εποχης του (τελος Βικτωριανης Εποχης) αλλα και της δικης μας εποχης.Θα μπορουσες να τον δεις να περιπλανιεται στις γειτονιες με μια μακρια μυστηριωδη μαυρη καπα,μπαστουνακι,ημιψηλο καπελο και ενα υφος επαρσης και σιγουριας.Οι αποψεις του ειναι τοσο προχωρημενες που σοκαρουν ακομη και σημερα.Πολλοι τον ειπαν ψωνιο και αλλαζονα.Και ηταν.Πολυ μεγαλη ψωναρα.Αλλα ισως και να ναι ο μονος που εχει δικιο σε οσα εχει πει και υποστηριξει.Μια ιδιοφυια που ομοια της δεν υπηρξε ποτε.Κατι αλλο που συγκλονισε τοτε τη κοινη γνωμη ηταν το θεμα της ομοφυλοφιλιας του.Παρ’οτι ηταν παντρεμενος και ειχε αποκτησει παιδια με τη γυναικα του,δε διστασε να κανει γνωστες τις ερωτικες του προτιμησεις σε μια χωρα που τοτε απαγορευε κατι τετοιο.Μπηκε στη φυλακη για 2 χρονια οπου και αρχισαν τα προβληματα με την υγεια του.Οταν αποφυλακιστηκε,εζησε την υπολοιπη ζωη του απομονωμενος απο τον κοινωνικο περιγυρο χωρις να σταματα ποτε να γραφει.
Oscar Wilde αποφθεγματα:
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.
My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
It is always the unreadable that occurs.
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
There is no sin except stupidity.
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.
Journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
All bad art is the result of good intentions.
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things.
[B]Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know
When I like people immensely, I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them. [/B]
The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.
Genius lasts longer than beauty.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
[B]Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.
I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones. [/B]
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.
[B]Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. [/B]
The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failure.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs
A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.
I can resist everything except temptation.
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don’t know anything at all.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
[B]My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people’s.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. [/B]
Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
Only the shallow know themselves.
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer. The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
A true friend stabs you in the front
[SIZE=“4”]Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.[/SIZE]
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between
I am not young enough to know everything.
I don’t recognize you - I’ve changed a lot.
I have nothing to declare except my Genius.
One of the requisites of sanity is to disagree with the majority of the British public.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
Why was I born with such contemporaries?
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