Oscar Wilde: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 26)

“Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well.

Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta.

Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.”

“If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?”

“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.”

“Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life”

“Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women.”

“Time is a waste of money.”

“One world was not enough for two like me and you.”

“The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.”

“Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.”

“To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.”

“But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.”

“Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.”

“You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?”

“Jack: “Gwendolen, wait here for me.”
Gwendolen: “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”

“The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.”

“All great ideas are dangerous.”

“I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.”

“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”

“It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.”