Oscar Wilde: Citations en anglais
Oscar Wilde était poète irlandais. Citations en anglais.“For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.”
Variante: For one moment our lives met our souls touched.
Oscar Wilde livre The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.”
Oscar Wilde livre De Profundis
Source: De Profundis
“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”
Oscar Wilde livre Le Prince heureux et autres contes
Source: The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
Oscar Wilde Un mari idéal
Lord Goring, Act II
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
Contexte: There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
Contexte: Puritans cannot destroy a beautiful thing, yet, by means of their extraordinary prurience, they can almost taint beauty for a moment. It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Contexte: It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance
Source: A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon, Act I.
Variante: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde livre The Nightingale and the Rose
Source: The Nightingale and the Rose
Oscar Wilde Un mari idéal
Sir Robert Chiltern, Act II
Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”
Oscar Wilde livre The Canterville Ghost
Source: The Canterville Ghost http://www.oscarwildecollection.com/savile/canterville.c1.html (1887). For history and analysis of the quote see Common Language http://oscarwildeinamerica.org/quotations/common-language.html.