Oscar Wilde: Frasi in inglese
Oscar Wilde era poeta, aforista e scrittore irlandese. Frasi in inglese.Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”
Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto
Algernon, Act I.
Origine: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Contesto: Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto
Origine: The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”
Variante: America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
“She is a peacock in everything but beauty!”
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”
Oscar Wilde Un marito ideale
Origine: An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto
Origine: The Importance of Being Earnest
“Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.”
Oscar Wilde libro L'anima dell'uomo sotto il socialismo
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto
Origine: The Importance of Being Earnest
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings