Oscar Wilde: Citations en anglais

Oscar Wilde était poète irlandais. Citations en anglais.
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“If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.”

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.”

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“You seem to forget that I am married, and the one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.”

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.”

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Oscar Wilde

“A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.”

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Oscar Wilde

"The Poets' Corner III," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/1307/ (May 30, 1887)

“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.”

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Oscar Wilde

The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
Variante: Action... is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.”

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.”

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Oscar Wilde

Lady Bracknell, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

“Never met such a Gorgon… I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.

Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.”

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Oscar Wilde

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

“[E]verybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”

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Oscar Wilde livre The Decay of Lying

Spoken by "Vivian."
The Decay of Lying (1889)

“What fire does not destroy, it hardens”

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”

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Oscar Wilde

“Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest