“Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.”
Oscar Wilde libro De profundis
De Profundis (1897)
Variante: Where there is no love there is no understanding.
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“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Variante: You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.”
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.”
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
Oscar Wilde libro The Decay of Lying
The Decay of Lying (1889)
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.”
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto
Algernon, Act I
Origine: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Arguments are to be avoided, they are always vulgar and often convincing.”
Variante: I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar and often convincing.
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly.”
Variante: It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.
“I am happy in my prison of passion”
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray