Оскар Уайльд: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 19)

Оскар Уайльд было ирландский поэт, драматург, писатель, эссеист. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Источник: The Importance of Being Earnest

“To be really mediæval one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes.”

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.”

Oscar Wilde книга The Decay of Lying

The Decay of Lying (1889)

“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”

Источник: The Critic as Artist

“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”

Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband

Lord Goring, Act III.
Вариант: The only possible society is oneself.
Источник: An Ideal Husband (1895)

“I know. In fact, I am never wrong.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Источник: The Importance of Being Earnest

“The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

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.”

Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan

Источник: Lady Windermere's Fan

“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”

Oscar Wilde книга Портрет Дориана Грея

Источник: 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 книга The Canterville Ghost

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.”

Oscar Wilde книга Портрет Дориана Грея

Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray