Oscar Wilde: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 31)

“You are Beautiful when you are happy”

“She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret.”

“Friendship… is not something you learn in school, but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.”

“I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.
It never is, sir.
Lane, you're a perfect pessimist.
I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.”

“Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.”

“I want to make Romeo jealous! I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.”

“I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.”

“Jack: Actually, I was found.
Lady Bracknell: Found?
Jack: Uh, yes, I was in… a handbag.
Lady Bracknell: A handbag?
Jack: Yes, it was…
[makes gestures]
Jack: an ordinary handbag.”

“Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories.”

“It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.”

“I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.”

“The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.”

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”

“It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.”

“but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself”

“Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life… I have put only my talent into my works.”

“I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing.”

“Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities”

“The only thing I cannot resist is temptation.”