Oscar Wilde: Idézetek angolul (oldal 15)

“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”

“I drink to separate my body from my soul.”

“When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.”

“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”

“In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.”

“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”

“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.”

“It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.”

“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”

“Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.”

“Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing.”

“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”

“A writer is someone who has taught his mind to misbehave.”

“And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.”

“It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly.”

“I am happy in my prison of passion”

“I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one.”

“My dear fellow, the truth isn't quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl.”

“Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.”