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1 " Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. "
― Oscar Wilde , The Happy Prince and Other Tales
2 " What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read. "
3 " I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. "
4 " Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices. "
5 " Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery. "
6 " So the swallow flew over the great city, and saw the rich making merry in their beautiful houses, while the beggars were sitting at the gates. He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets... "
7 " I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do. "
8 " Death is a great price to pay for a red rose,” cried the Nightingale, “and Life is very dear to all. It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and to watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent of the hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man? "
9 " Mais l'Amour vaut mieux que la Vie, et qu'est-ce que le cœur d'un oiseau à côté d'un cœur d'homme? "
10 " I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.” “But "
11 " The fact is, that I told him a story with a moral.” “Ah! that is always a very dangerous thing to do, "
12 " love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. "
13 " but love is not fashionable anymore, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about it that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent. I remember myself once-but no matter now. Romance is a thing of the past. "
14 " I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, "
15 " He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about. "
16 " I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying. "
17 " Common sense, indeed!” said the Rocket indignantly; “you forget that I am very uncommon, and very remarkable. Why, anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination. But I have imagination, for I never think of things as they really are; I always think of them as being quite different. As for keeping myself dry, there is evidently no one here who can at all appreciate an emotional nature. Fortunately for myself, I don’t care. The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated. "
18 " You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise. "
19 " ¿Debe la alegría vestirse con lo que fabrico el Dolor? "
20 " What is a sensitive person?” said the Cracker to the Roman Candle. “A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people’s toes,” answered the Roman Candle in a low whisper; and the Cracker nearly exploded with laughter. "
