“Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.”
Oscar Wilde livre De Profundis
De Profundis (1897)
Variante: Where there is no love there is no understanding.
Oscar Wilde: Citations en anglais
Oscar Wilde était poète irlandais. Citations en anglais.Oscar Wilde: 890 citations6 J'aime
“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Variante: You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.”
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
Oscar Wilde livre The Decay of Lying
The Decay of Lying (1889)
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon, Act I
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing.”
Variante: I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly.”
Variante: It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
“I am happy in my prison of passion”
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray