Oscar Wilde: Idézetek angolul (oldal 22)

“When bankers get together for dinner, they discuss Art. When artists get together for dinner, they discuss Money”

“I've now realized for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.”

“To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity.”

“What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.”

“The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.”

“It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.”

“You told me you had destroyed it."

"I was wrong. It has destroyed me.”

“Lord Illingworth: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden.
Mrs. Allonby: It ends with Revelations.”

“Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.”

“The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.”

“As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.”

“And alien tears will fill for him
Pity's long-broken urn,
For his mourners will be outcast men,
And outcasts always mourn.”

“I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous.”

“Genius lasts longer than beauty”

“But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone.”

“I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.”

“The number of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.”

“Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.”

“Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed…
This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.”