Oscar Wilde: Frases em inglês
Oscar Wilde era Escritor, poeta e dramaturgo britânico de origem irlandesa. Frases em inglês.“For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.”
Variante: For one moment our lives met our souls touched.
Oscar Wilde livro A Alma do Homem sob o Socialismo
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.”
Oscar Wilde livro De Profundis
Fonte: De Profundis
“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”
Oscar Wilde livro The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Fonte: The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray
Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband
Lord Goring, Act II
Fonte: An Ideal Husband (1895)
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
Contexto: 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.
Contexto: 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.
Contexto: 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 A Woman of No Importance
Fonte: A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon, Act I.
Variante: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
Fonte: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray
Fonte: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde livro The Nightingale and the Rose
Fonte: The Nightingale and the Rose
Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband
Sir Robert Chiltern, Act II
Fonte: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”
Oscar Wilde livro The Canterville Ghost
Fonte: 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.