Oscar Wilde: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 8)

“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune … to lose both seems like carelessness.”

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!”

“Every woman is a rebel.”

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”

“How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being”

“There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.”

“Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.”

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”

“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

“The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.”

“Everything in moderation, including moderation.”

“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”

“There is no sin except stupidity.”

“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”

“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”