Oscar Wilde: Frases em inglês

Oscar Wilde era Escritor, poeta e dramaturgo britânico de origem irlandesa. Frases em inglês.
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“Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.”

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Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”

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Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Algernon, Act I.
Fonte: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Contexto: Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

“But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.”

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Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Fonte: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.”

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Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”

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Variante: America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.

“Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable”

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Oscar Wilde

Fonte: The Critic as Artist

“She is a peacock in everything but beauty!”

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Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”

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“When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Fonte: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.”

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Oscar Wilde livro A Alma do Homem sob o Socialismo

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”

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Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray

Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Fonte: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women.

It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.”

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Oscar Wilde

Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

“One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar.”

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Oscar Wilde

“The moon in her chariot of pearl”

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Oscar Wilde livro The Nightingale and the Rose

Fonte: The Nightingale and the Rose