Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Fonte: The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde: Frases em inglês
Oscar Wilde era Escritor, poeta e dramaturgo britânico de origem irlandesa. Frases em inglês.Oscar Wilde: 1480 citações624 Curtidas
Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray
Variante: The one charm about the past is that it is the past.
Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.”
Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray
Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray
Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.”
Fonte: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
Fonte: De Profundis and Other Writings
“True friends stab you in the front”
Also found in variants such as "A true friend stabs you in the front". <br class="br">The earliest known example of this quote comes from Walter Winchell's syndicated newspaper column in mid-January 1955: 'On Broadway, cynically reports Jimmy Nelson, "a true friend is one who stabs you in the front"' <br class="br">The earliest version of this quote found in Google Books is from 1958, where the quote "A true friend is one who stabs you in the front" is attributed to actor Steve Dunne https://books.google.com/books?id=MF5-AAAAMAAJ&q=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&dq=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwig2JCRnKrMAhUC42MKHaNzCGsQ6AEIHDAA. <br class="br">In 1981, a similar quote: "He is a fine friend. He stabs you in the front" was attributed to Hollywood writer and producer Leonard Levinson https://books.google.com/books?id=Xbe8zbfuVLgC&q=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&dq=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMjOrQnKrMAhVL2GMKHcQQDSgQ6AEIHTAA. <br class="br">In 1984, an article in Ms. Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=sfIbAQAAMAAJ&q=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&dq=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjMjOrQnKrMAhVL2GMKHcQQDSgQ6AEIJzAC stated that "the Hollywood definition of a friend" was "someone who stabs you in the front". <br class="br">The earliest attribution to Oscar Wilde was from 1989 https://books.google.com/books?id=CnQJAAAAIAAJ&q=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22+wilde&dq=friend+%22stabs+you+in+the+front%22+wilde&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj2oqLfnKrMAhVG52MKHXdPANkQ6AEIJTAC: "A good friend is one who stabs you in the front". No source was given. <br class="br">Disputed <br class="br">Variante: A good friend will always stab you in the front. <br class="br">Fonte: e.g. "Broadway and Elsewhere" https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/3706522/, Pharos-Tribune (Logansport, IN), 1955-01-16, p. 4
Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray
Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray
Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“When good Americans die, they go to Paris"
"Where do bad Americans go?"
"They stay in America”
Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray
Act I.
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Contexto: Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris.
Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die, where do they go to?
Lord Illingworth: Oh, they go to America.
“The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Fonte: The Importance of Being Earnest
“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”
Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray
Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray
Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I'm too old to know everything”
J. M. Barrie The Admirable Crichton, Act I (1903).
Misattributed
Variante: I'm not young enough to know everything.