“Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Zdroj: The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde: Citáty anglicky
Oscar Wilde byl dramatik, prozaik a básník. Citáty anglicky.Oscar Wilde: 1320 citátů19639 lajků
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
Zdroj: Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”
Oscar Wilde kniha The Decay of Lying
The Decay of Lying (1889)
“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”
Zdroj: The Critic as Artist
“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”
Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband
Lord Goring, Act III.
Varianta: The only possible society is oneself.
Zdroj: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“I know. In fact, I am never wrong.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Zdroj: The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance
Lord Illingworth http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q=&quot;The+only+difference+between+the+saint+and+the+sinner+is+that+every+saint+has+a+past+and+every+sinner+has+a+future&quot;&pg=PA119#v=onepage, Act III <br class="br">A Woman of No Importance (1893)
“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
Zdroj: Lady Windermere's Fan
“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”
Oscar Wilde kniha Obraz Doriana Graye
Zdroj: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.”
Oscar Wilde kniha The Canterville Ghost
Zdroj: The Canterville Ghost
“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
"The Children of the Poets," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/1307/ (October 14, 1886) <br class="br">Varianta: One can survive everything nowadays except death.
“Most people are boring and stupid.”
Oscar Wilde kniha Obraz Doriana Graye
Zdroj: The Picture of Dorian Gray