Oscar Wilde: Frasi in inglese
Oscar Wilde era poeta, aforista e scrittore irlandese. Frasi in inglese.“For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.”
Variante: For one moment our lives met our souls touched.
Oscar Wilde libro L'anima dell'uomo sotto il socialismo
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.”
Oscar Wilde libro De profundis
Origine: De Profundis
“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”
Oscar Wilde libro The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Origine: The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
Oscar Wilde Un marito ideale
Lord Goring, Act II
Origine: An Ideal Husband (1895)
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
Contesto: There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
Contesto: Puritans cannot destroy a beautiful thing, yet, by means of their extraordinary prurience, they can almost taint beauty for a moment. It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Contesto: It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
Oscar Wilde Una donna senza importanza
Origine: A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde L'importanza di chiamarsi Ernesto
Algernon, Act I.
Variante: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
Origine: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde libro The Nightingale and the Rose
Origine: The Nightingale and the Rose
Oscar Wilde Un marito ideale
Sir Robert Chiltern, Act II
Origine: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”
Oscar Wilde libro Il fantasma di Canterville
Origine: The Canterville Ghost http://www.oscarwildecollection.com/savile/canterville.c1.html (1887). For history and analysis of the quote see Common Language http://oscarwildeinamerica.org/quotations/common-language.html.