Oscar Wilde: Frasi in inglese
Oscar Wilde era poeta, aforista e scrittore irlandese. Frasi in inglese.“When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.”
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
“She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.”
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Variante: She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto
The Philosophy of Dress, The New-York Tribune, 1885. For an analysis see Fashion a Form of Ugliness http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/quotations/fashion-a-form-of-ugliness.html <br class="br">Origine: The Importance of Being Earnest
“I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.”
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Variante: You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde libro L'anima dell'uomo sotto il socialismo
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Contesto: Art is Individualism, and Individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. Therein lies its immense value. For what it seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
Oscar Wilde Il ventaglio di Lady Windermere
Origine: Lady Windermere's Fan
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
“The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.”
Oscar Wilde Un marito ideale
Origine: An Ideal Husband
“Muffins should always be eaten quite calmly, as it is the only way to eat them!”
Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto
Origine: The Importance of Being Earnest
“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.”
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray