Oscar Wilde: Idézetek angolul (oldal 28)

“I have spent most of the day putting in a comma and the rest of the day taking it out.”

“One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.”

“The curves of your lips rewrite history.”

“And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

“Circumstances should never alter principles!”

“I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.”

“What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.”

“I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.”

“Good heavens! how marriage ruins a man! It's as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.”

“Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern.”

“It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.”

“Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art”

“The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.”

“Muffins should always be eaten quite calmly, as it is the only way to eat them!”

“What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.”

“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.”

“It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.”

“Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation.”

“Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade.
Gwendolen. [Satirically. ] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.”