Oscar Wilde: Citations en anglais (Page 33)

Oscar Wilde était poète irlandais. Citations en anglais.
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“He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.”

Oscar Wilde Un mari idéal

Source: An Ideal Husband

“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”

Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.”

Oscar Wilde Un mari idéal

Mrs Cheveley, Act I
Usually quoted as: No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)

“Everyone quoted it, it was full of so many words that they could not understand.”

Oscar Wilde livre The Happy Prince

Source: The Happy Prince

“Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”

Oscar Wilde L'Éventail de Lady Windermere

Cecil Graham http://books.google.com/books?id=8SzYgCNz-vwC&q="Gossip+is+charming+History+is+merely+gossip+But+scandal+is+gossip+made+tedious+by+morality"&pg=PT52#v=onepage, Act III
Variante: Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

“Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.”

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories

“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.”

Oscar Wilde livre The Soul of Man under Socialism

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.”

Oscar Wilde livre The Soul of Man under Socialism

Source: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.”

Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Variante: People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The sky was pure opal now.”

Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.”

Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I have a business appointment that I am anxious… to miss.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Source: The Importance of Being Earnest

“And down the long and silent street,
The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet,
Crept like a frightened girl.”

The Harlot's House http://www.poetry-archive.com/w/the_harlots_house.html, st. 12 (1885)

“I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.”

Written in a letter from Reading Prison to Lord Alfred Douglas in early 1897