Oscar Wilde: Citations en anglais

Oscar Wilde était poète irlandais. Citations en anglais.
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“When a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him.”

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Oscar Wilde Vera; or, The Nihilists

Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)

“To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.”

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Oscar Wilde

The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II

“The home seems to me to be the proper sphere for the man. And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not?”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Gwendolen, Act II
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.”

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Oscar Wilde

Quoted by Alvin Redman in The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde http://books.google.com/books?id=qUjQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Prayer+must+never+be+answered+if+it+is+it+ceases+to+be+prayer+and+becomes+correspondence%22&pg=PA106#v=onepage (1952)

“The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.”

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Oscar Wilde

A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)

“Charity creates a multitude of sins.”

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Oscar Wilde livre The Soul of Man under Socialism

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“Lord Goring: Now I'm gonna give you some good advice.
Mrs. Cheveley: Pray don't. You should never give a woman something she can't wear in the evening”

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Oscar Wilde Un mari idéal

Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)

“She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses," cried the young Student; "but in all my garden there is no red rose.”

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Oscar Wilde livre Le Prince heureux et autres contes

"The Nightingale and the Rose"
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)

“The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life.”

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Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Kelvil, Act I
A Woman of No Importance (1893)

“Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.”

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Oscar Wilde livre The Soul of Man under Socialism

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“Divorces are made in Heaven.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Algernon, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“She is not a subject.”

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Oscar Wilde

After claiming he could give a speech on any subject at a moment's notice, and being challenged by Lord Ribblesdale to talk about the Queen.
Quoted in The Reminiscences of Lady Randolph Churchill (1908)

“Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.”

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Oscar Wilde

The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II

“I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Algernon, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“Art is Individualism, and Individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. Therein lies its immense value. For what it seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.”

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Oscar Wilde livre The Soul of Man under Socialism

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is. Private property has crushed true Individualism, and set up an Individualism that is false. It has debarred one part of the community from being individual by starving them. It has debarred the other part of the community from being individual by putting them on the wrong road and encumbering them.”

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Oscar Wilde livre The Soul of Man under Socialism

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)