Oscar Wilde: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 5)

Quoted by Alvin Redman in The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde http://books.google.com/books?id=qUjQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Keep+love+in+your+heart+a+life+without+it+is+like+a+sunless+garden+when+the+flowers+are+dead+the+consciousness+of+loving+and+being+loved+brings+a+warmth+and+richness+to+life+that+nothing+else+can+bring%22&pg=PA102#v=onepage (1952)

Quelle: De Profundis

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

"The Relation of Dress to Art," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14062/14062-h/14062-h.htm (February 28, 1885)
reprinted in Aristotle at Afternoon Tea:The Rare Oscar Wilde (1991).
Variante: Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Decay of Lying (1889)
Kontext: If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture... In a house, we all feel of the proper proportions. Everything is subordinated to us, fashioned for our use and our pleasure.

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Kontext: Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your perfection is inside of you. If only you could realise that, you would not want to be rich. Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things, that may not be taken from you. And so, try to so shape your life that external things will not harm you. And try also to get rid of personal property. It involves sordid preoccupation, endless industry, continual wrong. Personal property hinders Individualism at every step.

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
Variante: Patriotism is the vice of nations.