Oscar Wilde: Citations en anglais

Oscar Wilde était poète irlandais. Citations en anglais.
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“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world”

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.”

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed.”

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.”

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Oscar Wilde livre De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

“It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.”

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level.”

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Oscar Wilde

“I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”

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Oscar Wilde

“I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister.
Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.”

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Source: Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

“Man is many things, but he is not rational.”

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.”

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray