Oscar Wilde: Idézetek angolul (oldal 9)

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”

“Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.”

“One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.”

“Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them.”

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.”

“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”

“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”

“They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.”

“You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?”

“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it.”

“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”

“Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.”

“I never put off till tomorrow what I can possibly do - the day after.”

“This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.”

“Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays.”

“I don’t say we all ought to misbehave. But we ought to look as if we could”

“Only the shallow know themselves.”

“All art is quite useless.”