Oscar Wilde: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 30)

“Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.”

“It is sweet to dance to violins
When Love and Life are fair:
To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes
Is delicate and rare:
But it is not sweet with nimble feet
To dance upon the air!”

“He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize”

“Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.”

“Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar”

“My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.”

“Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They're the only things we can pay.”

“sorrow… is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of
love touches it”

“If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.”

“The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.”

“We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.”

“How pale the Princess is! Never have I seen her so pale. She is like the shadow of a white rose in a mirror of silver.”

“I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and then the excitement is ended. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”

“Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.”

“Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded.”

“The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.”

“Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.”

“The supreme vice is shallowness.”

“Duty is what one expects from others.”