Oscar Wilde: Frases em inglês (página 14)

Oscar Wilde era Escritor, poeta e dramaturgo britânico de origem irlandesa. Frases em inglês.
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“Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton. Nothing succeeds like excess.”

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

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

“Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes”

Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.”

Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless…”

Fonte: Lady Windermere's Fan / A Woman of No Importance / An Ideal Husband / The Importance of Being Earnest / Salomé

“Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.”

Oscar Wilde livro A Alma do Homem sob o Socialismo

Fonte: The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.”

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Fonte: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.”

Oscar Wilde livro De Profundis

De Profundis (1897)
Variante: Where there is no love there is no understanding.

“You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.”

Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Variante: You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.
Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray