Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories
Oscar Wilde: Frasi in inglese (pagina 21)
Oscar Wilde era poeta, aforista e scrittore irlandese. Frasi in inglese.
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“Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.”
Oscar Wilde
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L'anima dell'uomo sotto il socialismo
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Contesto: Art is this intense form of individualism that makes the public try to exercise over it an authority that is as immoral as it is ridiculous, and as corrupting as it is contemptible. It is not quite their fault. The public have always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity. Now Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.”
Oscar Wilde
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Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
“But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.”
Oscar Wilde
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Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.”
Oscar Wilde
Il ventaglio di Lady Windermere
Mr. Dumby, Act II
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Oscar Wilde
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La casa dei melograni
"The Birthday of the Infanta", The House of Pomegranates http://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/classic_books_online/hpomg10.htm (1892)
Origine: A House of Pomegranates
Oscar Wilde
L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto
Algernon, Act II
Origine: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Oscar Wilde
L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto
Algernon, Act I
Origine: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
“She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.”
Oscar Wilde
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Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.”
Oscar Wilde
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Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray