Oscar Wilde: Citations en anglais (Page 14)

“One should always be a little improbable.”

“I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.”

“My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly, madly!

You didn't know it then-you know it now.”

“Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.”

“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”

“Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.”

“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.”

“When good Americans die, they go to Paris.”

“The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.”

“Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton. Nothing succeeds like excess.”

“Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes”

“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”

“The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.”

“Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.”

“Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless…”

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”

“I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.”

“Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.”

“Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.”