很自傲的作家, 他的格言都很有氣焰, 直白, 亦有點鄙視女性.
牛津大學畢業, 是小說家, 劇作家, 也是詩人. 長得帥, 有錢, 因為同性戀(雞姦)被判入獄, 很大膽的自認是喜歡同性. 在19世紀是很前衛的人了. 46歲死於梅毒, 應該是個很放浪的人.
One should never take sides in anything... Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.
...it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.
We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.
No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.
...women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes.
Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.
Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
There is no sin except stupidity.
You like everyone; that is to say, you are indifferent to everyone.
Skepticism is the beginning of faith.
It is only things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is, no doubt, the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.
The more the public is interested in artists, the less it is interested in art. The personality of the artist is not a thing the public should know anything about. It is too accidental.
To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it come into existence.
... the fact remains that a man who was affectionate and loving to his children, generous and warm-hearted to his friends, and whose books are the very bacchanalia of benevolence, pilloried his parents to make the groundlings face, and if possible explain.
In England we have always been prone to underrate the value of tradition in literature. In our eagerness to find a new voice and fresh mode of music we have forgotten how beautiful Echo may be.
But what is the difference between literature and journalism
Oh! Journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
...humility is for the hypocrite, modesty for the incompetent.
I choose my friends for their looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
...when people say how dreadful of me to return to Bosie, do say no - say that I love him, that he is a poet, and that, after all, whatever my life may have been ethically, it has always been romantic, and Bosie is my romance.
坦白承認自己是同性戀者.
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.
A patriot put in prison for loving his country loves his country, and a poet in prison for loving boys loves boys. To have altered my life would have been to have admitted that Uranian love ignoble. I hold it to be noble – more noble than other forms.
對於因為雞姦而被判監, 很不以為然.
Suffering is a terrible fire; it either purifies or destroys: perhaps I may be a better fellow after it all.
Oh! Don’t use big word. They mean so little.
Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
I don’t like at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far to conceited.
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