Oscar Wilde: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 33)

Oscar Wilde był angielski poeta, prozaik i dramatopisarz. Cytaty po angielsku.
Oscar Wilde: 998   Cytatów 58   Polubień

“The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.”

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Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya

Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.”

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Oscar Wilde Mąż idealny

Źródło: An Ideal Husband

“Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.”

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Oscar Wilde Salome

Źródło: Salomé

“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”

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Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya

Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.”

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Oscar Wilde Mąż idealny

Mrs Cheveley, Act I
Usually quoted as: No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
Źródło: An Ideal Husband (1895)

“Everyone quoted it, it was full of so many words that they could not understand.”

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Oscar Wilde książka The Happy Prince

Źródło: The Happy Prince

“Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”

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Oscar Wilde Wachlarz Lady Windermere

Cecil Graham http://books.google.com/books?id=8SzYgCNz-vwC&q="Gossip+is+charming+History+is+merely+gossip+But+scandal+is+gossip+made+tedious+by+morality"&pg=PT52#v=onepage, Act III
Wariant: Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Źródło: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

“Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.”

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Oscar Wilde

Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories

“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.”

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Oscar Wilde książka The Soul of Man under Socialism

Źródło: The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.”

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Oscar Wilde książka The Soul of Man under Socialism

Źródło: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.”

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Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya

Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery?
LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood.
MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last.
LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.”

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Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Źródło: A Woman of No Importance

“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.”

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Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya

Wariant: People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The sky was pure opal now.”

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Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya

Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.”

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Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya

Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk.
HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal.
MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen!”

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Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Źródło: A Woman of No Importance

“I have a business appointment that I am anxious… to miss.”

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Oscar Wilde Bądźmy poważni na serio

Źródło: The Importance of Being Earnest

“And down the long and silent street,
The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet,
Crept like a frightened girl.”

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Oscar Wilde

The Harlot's House http://www.poetry-archive.com/w/the_harlots_house.html, st. 12 (1885)