Oscar Wilde: Frasi in inglese

Oscar Wilde era poeta, aforista e scrittore irlandese. Frasi in inglese.

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Oscar Wilde libro The Nightingale and the Rose

Origine: The Nightingale and the Rose

“I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.”

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Oscar Wilde

Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories

“Give a man a mask and he’ll tell you the truth.”

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Oscar Wilde

“Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.”

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Oscar Wilde libro 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.”

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Oscar Wilde libro Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)

“Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.”

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Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto

Origine: The Importance of Being Earnest

“But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.”

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Oscar Wilde libro 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.”

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Oscar Wilde Il ventaglio di Lady Windermere

Mr. Dumby, Act II
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

“He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.”

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Oscar Wilde libro La casa dei melograni

"The Birthday of the Infanta", The House of Pomegranates http://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/classic_books_online/hpomg10.htm (1892) <br class="br">Origine: A House of Pomegranates

“Do you smoke?

Well, yes, I must admit I smoke.

I'm glad to hear of it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind.”

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Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto

Origine: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One must eat muffins quite calmly, it is the only way to eat them.”

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Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto

Algernon, Act II
Origine: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty and to someone else if she is plain.”

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Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto

Algernon, Act I
Origine: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)