The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
Oscar Wilde: Frasi in inglese (pagina 41)
Oscar Wilde era poeta, aforista e scrittore irlandese. Frasi in inglese.
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The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
The English Renaissance of Art https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wilde/oscar/english-renaissance-of-art/ (1882)
“Each man lived his own life, and paid his own price for living it.”
Oscar Wilde
libro
Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
“An Irish gentleman is someone who can play the bagpipes but won’t.”
First ascribed to Wilde by The Boston Globe in 1991. The joke probably appeared for the first time in 1917, when The Atchison Weekly Globe attributed it to a local man named Frank Fiest.
Misattributed
Origine: My Idea of a Gentleman Is He Who Can Play a Cornet and Won’t, Quote Investigator, 14 August 2021 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/04/21/cornet/,
“The only possible society is oneself.”
Oscar Wilde
Un marito ideale
Lord Goring, Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)
Oscar Wilde
libro
L'anima dell'uomo sotto il socialismo
called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time, no doubt. But at the present moment it really is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, The Lords Spiritual have nothing to say and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by journalism.
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
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
“One can survive everything nowadays except death.”
" Oscariana http://books.google.com/books?id=2otbAAAAMAAJ&q="One+can+survive+everything+nowadays+except+death"&pg=PA65#v=onepage" (1907)