Oscar Wilde: Idézetek angolul (oldal 16)

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

“The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.”

“Wisdom comes with winters”

“The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.”

“Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out.”

“When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.”

“It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.”

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”

“Lord Illingworth: Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.”

“Oscar Wilde was suing the Marquis of Queensbury in 1895 for libel accusing Wilde of homosexuality

Counsel: Have you ever adored a young man madly?
Wilde: I have never given adoration to anyone except myself.”

“I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.”

“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.”

“My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.”

“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”

“Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.”

“I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!”

“He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.”

“But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.”

“If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.”