Oscar Wilde: Citations en anglais (Page 19)

Oscar Wilde était poète irlandais. Citations en anglais.
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“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

“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”

Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”

Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray