Oscar Wilde's Quotes

Love: Oscar Wilde Quote
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Seeing: Oscar Wilde Quote
One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

Wealth: Oscar Wilde Quote
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Happiness: Oscar Wilde Quote
Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.

Happiness: Oscar Wilde Quote
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Seeing: Oscar Wilde Quote
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Integrity: Oscar Wilde Quote
The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

Life: Oscar Wilde Quote
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

“O Romeo, Romeo,/Wherefore art thou Romeo?/Deny thy father and refuse thy name,/Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,/And I’ll no longer be a Capulet” (II.i.74–78).



Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet concerns lovers whose love and life are destroyed by their parents’ hatred for each other. Throughout the play, Juliet is a naive child who contemplates the consequences of the Montague and the Capulet’s fighting, unlike her parents. Juliet is aware of the danger, although she doesn’t do anything about it to reconcile the families, because she knows that it would be pointless to even try. Romeo is not as aware of the danger of the feuds of the two families as Juliet is, and as a young man he gets angry easier and he is more passionate about things and he only thinks about the consequences later on. Juliet is the youngest characters in the play, who is still an innocent child at times, but who has great willpower and who contemplates the danger of the consequences of the family feuds.
Juliet is at her adolescent age and she is exactly on the border of being an innocent child and becoming a woman. At that time, in Verona, it was a custom for the girls at that age to get married. Lady and Lord Capulet were very much concerned about Juliet’s marriage and her life. As a result, Juliet is being forced to marry a man whom she promises to: “…look to like, if looking liking move”(1, 4, 103), and try to love him.
In the play, Juliet shows her self-confidence, maturity and courage. Juliet has strong willpower and she tries to obey her parents, saying that she will try to like Paris. Juliet shows strong willpower inside of her from the way she deals with the serious situation. Juliet’s dutiful agreement and her obedience looks like a refusal to her parents through a passive attitude. Juliet accepts Lady Capulet’s wishes, but she does not fall in love with Paris. Throughout the play, Juliet is a child and a confident mature woman at the same time.
When Juliet first meets her love, at the Capulet’s party, she shows her first steps away from childhood and towards adulthood. After she sees Romeo for the first time in her life and when she falls in love with him from the first sight, she is very upset to find out that, “[her] only love sprung from [her] only hate! / Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious love it is to [her]/ That [she] must love a loathed enemy” (1, 5,152-155). Although, Juliet is in love with Romeo, she disapproves Romeo’s fast decisions and his way of romanticizing things and she doesn’t fear to lose her love. She is able to see the events logically and to say the truth, no matter how bitter it is for her. Though her love is irresistible, it is not blind at all after the fact that Romeo kills Tybalt. Juliet’s heart is overwhelming with anger after she hears the news of Romeo’s banishment and Tybalt’s death and she even tells her mother: “…from the reach of [her] hands./Would none but [she] might venge [her] cousin’s death”(3, 5, 90). Although, she is young, her actions prove her internal maturity. Juliet drastically changes throughout the play and she is ready to leave her past life in Verona and to follow the one she loves. Even in the last moment, when the lovers meet at the tomb, Juliet shows more courage than Romeo, because she stabs herself through the heart with a dagger, which is harder to do than to just swallow poison.
In the beginning of the play, Shakespeare portraits Juliet as an innocent child, but throughout the play he makes her change into a self-confident woman. Juliet speaks these lines, “O Romeo, Romeo,/Wherefore art thou Romeo?/Deny thy father and refuse thy name,/Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,/And I’ll no longer be a Capulet” (II.i.74–78), that are the most famous lines in the entire play. While Juliet is standing on her balcony, not knowing that Romeo is in the garden, she asks why Romeo must be who he is, why does he has to be a Montague- her enemy. Juliet is tired of all the Montague and Capulet feuds and she wants Romeo to deny his family name for her love.
Juliet understands the reason of the family feuds, but she doesn’t want it to affect her love for Romeo. Juliet thinks that real love comes only from a person’s inner soul. The product of the family feuds is the outer identity, which is based just on names. The love for Romeo overtakes Juliet’s family’s hatred for the Montagues. “What’s in a name?” she asks. “That which we call a rose /By any other word would smell as sweet” (2, 1, 85–86).
The murder of her beloved cousin with Romeo’s hands is too much for Juliet to take. Juliet questions: “Can heaven can be so envious?” (3, 2, 45), when she believes that Romeo is banished. In Juliet’s inner soul she can not approve this terrific deed by Romeo and at the same time she Читать далее...

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My favorite balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet


Juliet.
Ah me!
Romeo.
She speaks:--
O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art
As glorious to this night, being o'er my head,
As is a winged messenger of heaven
Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
Of mortals that fall back to gaze on him
When he bestrides the lazy-pacing clouds
And sails upon the bosom of the air.
Juliet.
O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo
Deny thy father and refuse thy name;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love,
And I'll no longer be a Capulet.
Romeo.
[Aside.] Shall I hear more, or shall I speak at this?
Juliet.
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;--
Thou art thyself, though not a Montague.
What's Montague? It is nor hand, nor foot,
Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part
Belonging to a man. O, be some other name!
What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd,
Retain that dear perfection which he owes
Without that title:--Romeo, doff thy name;
And for that name, which is no part of thee,
Take all myself.
Romeo.
I take thee at thy word:
Call me but love, and I'll be new baptiz'd;
Henceforth I never will be Romeo.
Juliet.
What man art thou that, thus bescreen'd in night,
So stumblest on my counsel?
Romeo.
By a name
I know not how to tell thee who I am:
My name, dear saint, is hateful to myself,
Because it is an enemy to thee.
Had I it written, I would tear the word.
Juliet.
My ears have yet not drunk a hundred words
Of that tongue's utterance, yet I know the sound;
Art thou not Romeo, and a Montague?
Romeo.
Neither, fair saint, if either thee dislike.
Juliet.
How cam'st thou hither, tell me, and wherefore?
The orchard walls are high and hard to climb;
And the place death, considering who thou art,
If any of my kinsmen find thee here.
Romeo.
With love's light wings did I o'erperch these walls;
For stony limits cannot hold love out:
And what love can do, that dares love attempt;
Therefore thy kinsmen are no let to me.
Juliet.
If they do see thee, they will murder thee.
Romeo.
Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye
Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet,
And I am proof against their enmity.
Juliet.
I would not for the world they saw thee here.
Romeo.
I have night's cloak to hide me from their sight;
And, but thou love me, let them find me here.
My life were better ended by their hate
Than death prorogued, wanting of thy love.
Juliet.
By whose direction found'st thou out this place?
Romeo.
By love, that first did prompt me to enquire;
He lent me counsel, and I lent him eyes.
I am no pilot; yet, wert thou as far
As that vast shore wash'd with the furthest sea,
I would adventure for such merchandise.


Different Quotes from my favorite authors and poets…


Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.
William Shakespeare

Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till by broad spreading it disperses to naught.
William Shakespeare

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
Oscar Wilde

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.
Oscar Wilde

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
Oscar Wilde

I must be cruel only to be kind;
Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
William Shakespeare
Lady you bereft me of all words,
Only my blood speaks to you in my veins,
And there is such confusion in my powers.
William Shakespeare
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below.
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
William Shakespeare
The soul of this man is in his clothes.
William Shakespeare

Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause.
William Shakespeare
Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
William Shakespeare

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.
Mark Twain

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde

A true friend stabs you in the front.
Oscar Wilde

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.
Oscar Wilde
When we are born, we cry, that we are come
To this great stage of fools.
William Shakespeare

When griping grief the heart doth wound,
and doleful dumps the mind opresses,
then music, with her silver sound,
with speedy help doth lend redress.
William Читать далее...

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“The Wiener Walzer”

One, two, three
One, two three
Turn and spin
Left and right
With the music of the Wiener Walzer
He sways you back and forth
Like a feather,
Holds you tightly but gently
With his high proud posture,
One, two, three
One, two, three
Sounds of footsteps
Ticking of heals,
Your dress twirls around
Playfully shining
In the dim ballroom light,
Blue, red, yellow, gold, silver, purple, pink…
Spinning, twisting, turning, whirling…
Champaign, wine, roses…
One, two, three
One, two, three
Graceful playing the violins and the violas
The smell of sweet charming perfume
The sound of gay music and laughter
A gentleman kissing a lady’s hand,
The Wiener Walzer
Spins everyone around
In a friendly atmosphere
Like a fountain of joy, laughter, music, love, Champaign, and fireworks.

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"Butterfly”


How gracefully you float in the air
Your wings full of life gently flapping
Like two gaseous clouds!
The wind rushes by
Takes you with him on the way…
You land quietly on a yellow flower
Rest a while after your flight,
The wind picks you up
And brings you to me
You spin around in the air
On a sunny fresh morning
Bringing joy and happiness
To kids who run chasing you
With laughter,
So curious and lively
You land on my shoulder
And slowly open your transparent silky
Weightlessly trembling wings
Sprinkling silver pollen
On my shoulder
With those opaque light blue laces
You give me hope
Remind me I am still alive
And give me memories of my innocent
Worriless and joyful childhood,
You make me want to fly!
I wish I were as lighthearted and free
As a light graceful spinning lively butterfly!

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Catch this kiss I've blown to you
As it flutters from my fingertips
Reach out and gently cradle it
As it dances to your lips.
Hear this wish I've made for us
In the stillness of my heart
Listen to the plea it makes...
That we would never part.
Feel the warmth within my heart
The comfort I've come to know.
Safe...secure...wrapped in your love
Don't ever let me go.
Catch this kiss I've blown to you...

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