Oscar Wilde: Citations en anglais (Page 19)

Oscar Wilde était poète irlandais. Citations en anglais.
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“Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.”

A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
Source: Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”

Oscar Wilde Un mari idéal

Lord Goring, Act III.
Variante: The only possible society is oneself.
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)

“I know. In fact, I am never wrong.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Lord Illingworth http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q="The+only+difference+between+the+saint+and+the+sinner+is+that+every+saint+has+a+past+and+every+sinner+has+a+future"&pg=PA119#v=onepage, Act III
A Woman of No Importance (1893)

“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”

Oscar Wilde L'Éventail de Lady Windermere

Source: Lady Windermere's Fan

“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”

Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.”

Oscar Wilde livre The Canterville Ghost

Source: The Canterville Ghost

“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”

"The Children of the Poets," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/1307/ (October 14, 1886)
Variante: One can survive everything nowadays except death.

“Most people are boring and stupid.”

Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray