Oscar Wilde: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 17)

“Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.”

“Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.”

“A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.”

“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.”

“The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.”

“I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws.”

“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.”

“I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.”

“Never met such a Gorgon… I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair.”

“The great events of the world take place in the brain…”

“Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.

Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.”

“[E]verybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.”

“What fire does not destroy, it hardens”

“To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.”

“I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”

“Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”

“Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things.
That is exactly what things were originally made for.”

“Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.”

“It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind. -Algernon”