Oscar Wilde: Frasi in inglese

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

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“It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.”

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

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“Ah! That must be Aunt Augusta. Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner.”

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Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto

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

“I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.”

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Oscar Wilde Un marito ideale

Lord Goring, Act IV
An Ideal Husband (1895)

“To drift with every passion till my soul
Is a stringed lute on which all winds can play,
Is it for this that I have given away
Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control?
Methinks my life is a twice-written scroll
Scrawled over on some boyish holiday
With idle songs for pipe and virelay,
Which do but mar the secret of the whole.”

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Oscar Wilde libro Poems

"Hélas" (1881)
Poems (1881)

“If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.”

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As quoted in The New-York Herald (12 August 1883) http://www.oscarwildeinamerica.org/quotations/fame-and-obscurity.html

“Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.”

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Oscar Wilde Un marito ideale

Mrs Chevely, Act I
An Ideal Husband (1895)

“Lady Hunstanton: But do you believe all that is written in the newspapers?
Lord Illingworth: I do. Nowadays it is only the unreadable that occurs.”

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Oscar Wilde Una donna senza importanza

Act I
A Woman of No Importance (1893)

“Here we allow absolute freedom to the journalist and entirely limit the artist. English public opinion, that is to say, tries to constrain and impede and warp the man who makes things that are beautiful in effect, and compels the journalist to retail things that are ugly, or disgusting, or revolting in fact, so that we have the most serious journalists in the world and the most indecent newspapers.”

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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 13 February 2018 https://archive.org/details/soulofmanunderso00wildiala

“It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes. Behind the barricade there may be much that is noble and heroic. But what is there behind the leading-article but prejudice, stupidity, cant, and twaddle? And when these four are joined together they make a terrible force, and constitute the new authority.”

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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 13 February 2018 https://archive.org/details/soulofmanunderso00wildiala

“As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.”

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The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II

“Why, what a wonderful piece of luck! Here is a red rose! I have never seen any rose like it in all my life. It is so beautiful that I am sure it has a long Latin name.”

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Oscar Wilde libro The Happy Prince and Other Tales

"The Nightingale and the Rose"
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)

“Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.”

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

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“I know not whether Laws be right,
Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who lie in gaol
Is that the wall is strong;
And that each day is like a year,
A year whose days are long.”

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Oscar Wilde libro The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. V, st. 29
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

“Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are.”

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Oscar Wilde Un marito ideale

Mrs. Cheveley, Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)

“Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them?”

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Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto

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

“Now don't stir. I'll be back in five minutes. And don't fall into any temptations while I am away.”

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Oscar Wilde Un marito ideale

Miss Mabel Chiltern to Lord Goring, just after accepting his proposal, Act IV
An Ideal Husband (1895)

“Heaven is a despotism. I shall be at home there.”

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Oscar Wilde Vera; or, The Nihilists

Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)

“A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want. Indeed, the moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist, and becomes a dull or an amusing craftsman, an honest or a dishonest tradesman. He has no further claim to be considered as an artist.”

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

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present condition of things, presses so hardly upon almost everybody. In fact, scarcely any one at all escapes.”

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

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living.”

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Oscar Wilde Una donna senza importanza

Lord Illingworth, Act III
A Woman of No Importance (1893)