Oscar Wilde: Frases em inglês (página 38)
Oscar Wilde era Escritor, poeta e dramaturgo britânico de origem irlandesa. Frases em inglês.
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“However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.”
Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband
Lord Goring, Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)
“When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.”
Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband
Lord Goring, Act IV
An Ideal Husband (1895)
“We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour.”
Oscar Wilde
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De Profundis
De Profundis (1897)
“As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.”
Oscar Wilde
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A Alma do Homem sob o Socialismo
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance
Act I http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Women+have+become+too+brilliant+Nothing+spoils+a+romance+so+much+as+a+sense+of+humour+in+the+woman%22+%22or+the+want+of+it+in+the+man%22&pg=PA34#v=onepage
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
“There are few things easier than to live badly and to die well.”
Oscar Wilde
Vera; or, The Nihilists
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
Letter http://www.artsandartists.org/exhpages/whistler.html to James McNeill Whistler (23 February 1885)
“In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.”
Oscar Wilde
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A Alma do Homem sob o Socialismo
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning.”
Oscar Wilde
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The Decay of Lying
A reference to George Meredith's style.
The Decay of Lying (1889)
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.”
"The Portrait of Mr. W. H.," Blackwood's Magazine, July 1889 http://books.google.com/books?id=QfczAQAAMAAJ&q=%22All+charming+people+I+fancy+are+spoiled+It+is+the+secret+of+their+attraction%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage