Quotes and aphorisms
Socialists are revolutionaries who seek to destroy the modern unreasonable society in order to build a new, reasonable one on its ruins. Let me face the truth. Tell me what the face of truth is. If your presentation is uninteresting, it is because your thought is uninteresting; if it is limited, it is because you yourself are limited. The true purpose of man is to live, not to exist. Like the ocean, it has its own language, a strong, sonorous, holy, prayerful language! As soon as the day wakes up, the consonant hymn of bells is heard from all its golden-domed churches... and it seems that disembodied sounds take on a visible form, that the spirits of heaven and hell are coiled under the clouds into one diverse, immeasurable, rapidly spinning round dance! A bone thrown to a dog is not there is mercy; mercy is a bone shared with a dog when you are as hungry as it is. Beauty is absolute. Human life, all life, submits to beauty. Beauty already existed in the Universe before man. Beauty will remain in the Universe when a person dies, but not vice versa. Beauty does not depend on an insignificant person wallowing in the mud. Moscow is not an ordinary big city, of which there are a thousand; Moscow is not a silent mass of cold stones arranged in a symmetrical order... no! She has her own soul, her own life... Not knowing any god, I made man the object of my worship. Of course, I had time to find out how low he could fall. But this only increases my respect for him, because it allows me to appreciate the heights that he reached. You shouldn’t wait for inspiration, you have to chase him with a club. To invent mortal sins, you needed a person, with his imagination and his power over matter. What compare with this Kremlin, which, surrounded by battlements, flaunting the golden domes of cathedrals, reclines on a high mountain, like a sovereign crown on the brow of a formidable ruler?.. It is the altar of Russia, on it many sacrifices worthy of the fatherland should be and have already been made... How long ago , like a fabulous phoenix, he was reborn from his burning ashes?..
Oscar Wilde. Quotes in English with translation
Oscar Wilde. Quotes about life (in English)
Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping.
I beg your pardon I didn't recognize you — I've changed a lot.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde. Quotes about life (translation into Russian)
Oscar Wilde. Quotes about society (in English)
America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genuis.
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Oscar Wilde. Quotes about society (translation into Russian)
Oscar Wilde. Quotes about friendship (in English)
Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.
Oscar Wilde. Quotes about friendship (translation into Russian)
Oscar Wilde. Quotes about people (in English)
If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else`s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.
Oscar Wilde. Quotes about people (translation into Russian)
Oscar Wilde. Quotes about work (in English)
It is awfully hard work doing nothing.
Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do.
Oscar Wilde. About work (translation into Russian)
Oscar Wilde. Quotes about myself (in English)
I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.
I can resist anything but temptation.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
I have nothing to declare except my genius.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do — the day after.
I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
Oscar Wilde. About myself (translation into Russian)
Oscar Wilde. Quotes about love (in English)
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What women like is to be a man's last romance.
Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed. (From "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry
The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one's heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one's heart to stone.
We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes..
I am happy in my prison of passion.
Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
Oscar Wilde. About love (translation into Russian)
Oscar Wilde. Quotes about wine (in English)
I drink to separate my body from my soul.
Short stories
I must remember once and for all that every person is worthy of respect, unless he considers himself better than others.
— “Night on Goboto”
The day was approaching evening, and the travelers, suppressed by the greatness of the White Silence, silently made their way. Nature has many ways to convince a person of his mortality: the continuous alternation of ebbs and flows, the fury of a storm, the horrors of an earthquake, the thunderclaps of heavenly artillery. But most powerful of all, most crushing of all, is White Silence in its impassivity.
— “White Silence”
Nature is not merciful to individual living beings. Her attention is directed to species, races. ... But nature sets a task for every living creature. If it fails, it will die. If he does it, he will still die. Nature is indifferent: there are many submissive to it, but eternity is destined not for the submissive, but for obedience. ... Nature is indifferent. She set one task for life, gave one law. The task of life is procreation, its law is death.
- "Law of life"
He unpacked the bundle and first of all counted how many matches he had. There were sixty-seven of them. To avoid mistakes, he counted three times. He divided them into three piles and wrapped each one in parchment; He put one bundle in an empty pouch, another in the lining of his worn-out hat, and the third in his bosom. When he had done all this, he suddenly became afraid; he unwrapped all three bundles and counted them again. There were still sixty-seven matches. Only life makes you suffer. It doesn't hurt to die. To die is to fall asleep. Death is the end, the peace. Why then does he not want to die?
- "Love of life"
When a person leaves for distant lands, he must be prepared for the fact that he will have to forget many of his previous habits and acquire new ones that meet the changed living conditions. He must part with his former ideals, renounce the former gods, and often renounce those moral rules that have hitherto guided his actions. Those who are endowed with a special gift of adaptability may even find pleasure in the novelty of the situation. But for those who are ossified in the habits acquired since childhood, the oppression of the changed conditions is unbearable - such people suffer in soul and body, unable to understand the demands that a different environment places on them. These sufferings give rise to evil tendencies and bring all sorts of disasters upon a person. For those who cannot enter a new path in life, it is better to immediately return to their homeland; delay will cost him his life.
- “In a distant land”
John Messner carefully closed the door behind him and, as he set off, looked back at the hut with a feeling of great satisfaction. He went down from the bank, stopped the sledge at the ice hole and pulled out a bag of gold from under the ropes holding the luggage together. The water was already covered with a thin crust of ice. He broke the ice with his fist and, untying the strings of the bag with his teeth, poured its contents into the water. The river was shallow at this point, and two feet below the surface Messner saw the bottom, dimly yellow in the fading light of day. He spat into the hole. - Well... you... poor fellows! - Messner turned to the dogs, who had fallen heavily on the ice - to rest. His voice was broken from the efforts with which he pounded the pole with his numb hand. “What have you done wrong that two-legged people harness you to sledges, suppress all your natural instincts and make miserable slaves out of you?”
— “One-day stay”
| Tell a white man that there is a pearl lying in some lagoon where tens of thousands of warlike natives live, and he will rush there headlong with half a dozen different Kanak hunters and a cheap alarm clock instead of a chronometer. They will take a comfortable vessel with a displacement of five tons and cram into it like sardines in a barrel. Just whisper to him that there is a gold mine at the North Pole, and this indomitable white-skinned creature will immediately set off, taking with him a shovel, a pick, a ham and a patented, state-of-the-art gold pan. And the most amazing thing is that he will get there! Hint to him that diamonds have been found behind the red-hot fence of hell - and Mr. White-skinned will attack the gates of the underworld and force the old tramp Satan to work with a crowbar and a shovel. This is what happens when a person is stupid and untamed. |
| - "The Indomitable White Man" |
| White can live a long time in the Solomon Islands - for this he only needs caution and luck, and in addition, he must be indomitable. The stamp of indomitability must mark his thoughts and actions. He must be able to face failures with magnificent indifference, must have colossal self-esteem, the confidence that whatever he does is right; must, finally, unshakably believe in his racial superiority and never doubt that one white man at any time can cope with a thousand blacks, and on Sundays - with two thousand. |
| — “Terrible Solomon Islands” |
About Jack London
| This is Jack London. A phenomenon that burst like a hurricane into the established literary tradition. He didn’t care about inspiration and ideas, he didn’t care one bit about the lyrical mood, intellectual content, aesthetics and all the other attributes of literature, no matter what they were called; he simply sat down and began to talk about his life, literature was not a “gift” for him, not “divine providence”, it was simply a profession that fed him, and nothing more; every day he wrote his “hundred lines”, not one more, not one less - and, despite this and thanks to this, a work arose, so passionate, so energetic, full of adventure, amazingly imaginative and exciting, which opened up new worlds and, like a rejuvenating storm, burst into decrepit literature immersed in psychoanalysis. — translation: E. A. Zis, 2002 |
| — Erich Maria Remarque, “From “oyster pirate” to writer,” 1926 |
see works of Jack London
- 1,01,11,21,31,41,51,6 London Jack Stories; Per. from English / Intro. Art. A. M. Zvereva; Il. P. N. Pinkisevich. - M.: Pravda, 1984. - 576 p., ill.
Oscar Wilde. Quotes in English with translation / Quotes by Oscar Wilde
Probably no one is the author of more quotes than the English writer Oscar Wilde . Quotes from this writer touch on all aspects of life: there are some about life, about friendship, about love, about work, about society.
Many of Oscar Wilde's works are simply disassembled into quotes. We bring to your attention the best Oscar Wilde quotes in English. All quotes have a translation into Russian . The quotes are so different that I think everyone will find lines among this set that are close only to them. For example, I liked these ones.
Quotes by Oscar Wilde
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
