Oscar Wilde: Citations en anglais
Oscar Wilde était poète irlandais. Citations en anglais.Letter http://www.artsandartists.org/exhpages/whistler.html to James McNeill Whistler (23 February 1885)
“Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Already Taken.”
Anonymous advertising copywriter for Menards chain of hardware stores (2000), according to Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/20/be-yourself <br class="br">Misattributed
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Contexte: Jack: That, my dear Algy, is the whole truth pure and simple.
Algernon: The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
Act I
Often quoted as "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
Variante: Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
“I am not young enough to know everything.”
Variante: I am not young enough to know everything.
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
The Portrait of Mr. W. H. http://www.planetmonk.com/wilde/portrait/wh01.html (1889)
In a letter to Ada Leverson [Sphinx] recorded in her book Letters To The Sphinx From Oscar Wilde and Reminiscences of the Author (1930)
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
Variante: The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Source: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
Variante: I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
A version of this quote was published anonymously in an insurance magazine in 1908 https://books.google.com/books?id=S2JJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA375&dq=%22others+whenever+they+go%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwja94i3iaXLAhUY7mMKHW5fAGIQ6AEIJjAC#v=onepage&q=%22others%20whenever%20they%20go%22&f=false. The earliest attribution to Wilde was in 1955 https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22others+whenever+they+go%22+wilde#hl=en&tbs=cdr:1%2Ccd_min:1900%2Ccd_max:1999&tbm=bks&q=%22others+whenever+they+go+oscar+wilde+jive%22; no source in Wilde's writings has been found. <br class="br">Disputed
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
As quoted in Oscar Wilde : An Idler's Impression (1917) http://books.google.com/books?id=ddAVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=edgar+saltus+wilde&cd=3#v=snippet&q=satisfied&f=false by Edgar Saltus, p. 20
“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
Oscar Wilde livre Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray