Oscar Wilde: Citations en anglais
Oscar Wilde était poète irlandais. Citations en anglais.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
“If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon, Act I.
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Contexte: Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”
Variante: America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
“She is a peacock in everything but beauty!”
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”
Oscar Wilde Un mari idéal
Source: An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
“Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.”
Oscar Wilde livre The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings