Оскар Уайльд: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 3)

Источник: A Woman of No Importance

Источник: A Woman of No Importance

This quote was instead first mentioned in a 1931 book titled “Since Calvary: An Interpretation of Christian History” by the comparative religion specialist Lewis Browne.
Disputed

Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Obraz Doriana Graye)

Источник: The Happy Prince and Other Stories

Вариант: A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Источник: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II

Источник: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

Mr. Dumby, Act III.
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
Вариант: Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Вариант: Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Контексте: Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. [First used by Wilde in Vera; or, The Nihilists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera;_or,_The_Nihilists. ]

Источник: The Canterville Ghost http://www.planetmonk.com/wilde/savile/canterville.c1.html (1887)

A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)

Lord Darlington, Act I
Вариант: I can resist everything except temptation
Источник: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Lord Darlington, Act III.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Вариант: What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Контексте: A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. [Answering the question, what is a cynic? ]