Oscar Wilde: Frasi in inglese

Oscar Wilde era poeta, aforista e scrittore irlandese. Frasi in inglese.
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“For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.”

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Oscar Wilde libro De profundis

De Profundis (1897)

“In Art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them. They endure them as the inevitable, and, as they cannot mar them, they mouth about them…A fresh mode of Beauty is absolutely distasteful to them, and whenever it appears they get so angry and bewildered that they always use two stupid expressions - one is that the work of art is grossly unintelligible; the other, that the work of art is grossly immoral.”

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Oscar Wilde libro L'anima dell'uomo sotto il socialismo

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“The fact is, that the public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing. Journalism, conscious of this, and having tradesmanlike habits, supplies their demands”

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Oscar Wilde libro L'anima dell'uomo sotto il socialismo

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891) <br class="br">Origine: Wilde, Oscar, (1891 / 1912) The Soul of Man Under Socialism, London, Arthur L. Humphreys. Retrieved from University of California Libraries Archive.org https://archive.org 26 February 2018 https://archive.org/details/soulofmanunderso00wildiala

“No gentleman ever has any money.”

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Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto

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

“It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest.”

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Oscar Wilde

The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I

“In married life, three is company, and two is none.”

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Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto

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

“Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community, and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation.”

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Oscar Wilde libro L'anima dell'uomo sotto il socialismo

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.”

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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)

“I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not.”

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Oscar Wilde Il ventaglio di Lady Windermere

Mrs. Erlynne, Act IV
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

“There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannises over the body. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannises over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.”

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Oscar Wilde libro L'anima dell'uomo sotto il socialismo

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“For Man's grim Justice goes its way,
And will not swerve aside:
It slays the weak, it slays the strong,
It has a deadly stride:
With iron heel it slays the strong,
The monstrous parricide!”

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Oscar Wilde libro The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. III, st. 19
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

“I hear her hair has turned quite gold from grief”

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Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto

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

“Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities.”

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Oscar Wilde Vera; or, The Nihilists

Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)

“Lo! with a little rod
I did but touch the honey of romance —
And must I lose a soul's inheritance?”

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Oscar Wilde

Helas! http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/wilde/helas.html, l. 12-14 (1881)

“It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little.”

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Oscar Wilde libro De profundis

De Profundis (1897)

“When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.”

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Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto

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

“When a voice behind me whispered low,
"That fellow's got to swing."”

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Oscar Wilde libro The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. I, st. 4
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

“He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.”

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Oscar Wilde

&quot;Oscariana&quot; (1907), Complete Works, p. 32 https://books.google.com/books?id=-CtXAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA32

“Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.”

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Oscar Wilde Un marito ideale

Lord Goring, Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)