Oscar Wilde: Idézetek angolul (oldal 12)

“I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.”

“In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.”

“They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.”

“Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.”

“A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.”

“I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.”

“Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.”

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”

“My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.”

“You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things… I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas”

“nothing that is worth knowing can be taught”

“Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.”

“I never change, except in my affections.”

“Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive”

“There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.”

“Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.”

“Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.”

“People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.”

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays.”