Oscar Wilde: Citations en anglais

Oscar Wilde était poète irlandais. Citations en anglais.
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“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!”

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Oscar Wilde livre The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. I, st. 7.
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Source: The Ballad Of Reading Gaol

“I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.”

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Oscar Wilde

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

“One should always be a little improbable.”

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Oscar Wilde livre Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)

“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.”

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Oscar Wilde L'Éventail de Lady Windermere

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan

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

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“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.”

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Oscar Wilde livre De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

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

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

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Oscar Wilde

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

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Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Lord Illingworth, Act III
A Woman of No Importance (1893)

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

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

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Oscar Wilde

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / The Importance of Being Earnest / Salomé

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

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Oscar Wilde livre The Soul of Man under Socialism

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism

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

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest