Oscar Wilde: Citations en anglais

Oscar Wilde était poète irlandais. Citations en anglais.
Oscar Wilde: 890 citations6 J'aime

“Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.
That is exactly what things were originally made for.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.”

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon”

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Oscar Wilde

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays

“And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand,
The hand that held the steel:
For only blood can wipe out blood,
And only tears can heal”

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Oscar Wilde

“Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a
sacrament that should be taken kneeling.”

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Oscar Wilde livre De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

“When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?”

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Oscar Wilde livre De Profundis

Source: De Profundis (1897)

“I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.”

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Oscar Wilde

“And all the woe that moved him so
That he gave that bitter cry
the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats
None knew so well as I:
For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.”

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Oscar Wilde

“ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl… I have ever met since… I met you.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Variante: Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.”

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Oscar Wilde Un mari idéal

Source: An Ideal Husband

“To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“You are what you read”

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Oscar Wilde

“Yes, very sensible… People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.”

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray