Oscar Wilde: Idézetek angolul (oldal 23)

“Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.”

“I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.”

“The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.”

“Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.”

“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”

“I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.”

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

“Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.”

“The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.”

“Create yourself. Be yourself your poem.”

“Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.”

“I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.”

“I am always late on principle, my principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.”

“Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.”

“Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.”

“Life cheats us with shadows.
We ask it for pleasure.
It gives it to us with bitterness
and disappointment in its train.”

“Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.”

“I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious."
"Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense."
"Nobody ever does.”

“Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous.”