“Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.”
Источник: The Importance of Being Earnest
“Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.”
Источник: The Importance of Being Earnest
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
Источник: Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”
The Decay of Lying (1889)
“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”
Lord Goring, Act III.
Вариант: The only possible society is oneself.
Источник: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“I know. In fact, I am never wrong.”
Источник: The Importance of Being Earnest
Lord Illingworth http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q="The+only+difference+between+the+saint+and+the+sinner+is+that+every+saint+has+a+past+and+every+sinner+has+a+future"&pg=PA119#v=onepage, Act III
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”
Источник: Lady Windermere's Fan
“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.”
Источник: 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)
Вариант: One can survive everything nowadays except death.
“Most people are boring and stupid.”
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray