Oscar Wilde: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 18)

“Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a
sacrament that should be taken kneeling.”

“When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?”

“She lives the poetry she cannot write.”

“I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.”

“Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.”

“All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.”

“With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.”

“Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened.”

“And all the woe that moved him so
That he gave that bitter cry
the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats
None knew so well as I:
For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.”

“There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”

“ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl… I have ever met since… I met you.”

“I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.”

“I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.”

“To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution.”

“You are what you read”

“Yes, very sensible… People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.”

“Any place you love is the world to you.”

“Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.”

“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.”