Oscar Wilde: Citations en anglais (Page 38)

Oscar Wilde était poète irlandais. Citations en anglais.
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“However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.”

Oscar Wilde Un mari idéal

Lord Goring, Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)

“Only good questions deserve good answers.”

Oscar Wilde livre De Profundis

De Profundis (1897)

“When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.”

Oscar Wilde Un mari idéal

Lord Goring, Act IV
An Ideal Husband (1895)

“As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.”

Oscar Wilde livre The Soul of Man under Socialism

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“Lord Illingworth: Women have become too brilliant. Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.
Mrs. Allonby: Or the want of it in the man.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Act I http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Women+have+become+too+brilliant+Nothing+spoils+a+romance+so+much+as+a+sense+of+humour+in+the+woman%22+%22or+the+want+of+it+in+the+man%22&pg=PA34#v=onepage
A Woman of No Importance (1893)

“There are few things easier than to live badly and to die well.”

Oscar Wilde Vera; or, The Nihilists

Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)

“Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.”

Letter http://www.artsandartists.org/exhpages/whistler.html to James McNeill Whistler (23 February 1885)

“In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.”

Oscar Wilde livre The Soul of Man under Socialism

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky.”

Oscar Wilde livre The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. I, st. 3
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

“His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning.”

Oscar Wilde livre The Decay of Lying

A reference to George Meredith's style.
The Decay of Lying (1889)

“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.”

"The Portrait of Mr. W. H.," Blackwood's Magazine, July 1889 http://books.google.com/books?id=QfczAQAAMAAJ&q=%22All+charming+people+I+fancy+are+spoiled+It+is+the+secret+of+their+attraction%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage