Oscar Wilde: Idézetek angolul (oldal 19)

“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”

“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”

“I know. In fact, I am never wrong.”

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”

“The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

“Truth is independent of facts always.”

“I must say… that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.”

“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”

“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”

“A mask tells us more than a face.”

“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”

“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.”

“It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.”

“The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.”

“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”

“Most people are boring and stupid.”

“Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console him from what is.”

“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”

“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”