“Ser natural é a mais dificil das poses.”
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
Epigrams: An Anthology - Página 110, Oscar Wilde - A. Redman, 1952 - 260 páginas
Epigramas
“Ser natural é a mais dificil das poses.”
To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
Epigrams: An Anthology - Página 110, Oscar Wilde - A. Redman, 1952 - 260 páginas
Epigramas
“O mundo pode ser um palco, mas o elenco é um horror.”
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime & Other Stories - Página 20, Oscar Wilde - J.R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Company, 1891 - 168 páginas
Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray
O Retrato de Dorian Gray
“Ser grande significa ser incompreendido.”
To be great is to be misunderstood
The Writings of Oscar Wilde ... - Volume 15 - Página 282, Oscar Wilde, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Lady Wilde - A. R. Keller & Company, Incorporated, 1907
Variante: Ser grande é ser incompreendido.
Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Uma ideia que não é perigosa não merece ser chamada de ideia.”
Oscar Wilde livro Intentions
An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Intentions - Página 181, Oscar Wilde - Dodd, Mead, 1905 - 258 páginas
Intentions
Oscar Wilde livro O Retrato de Dorian Gray
And Beauty is a form of Genius—is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty.
Complete Works: The picture of Dorian Gray. A house of pomegranates - Página 26, Oscar Wilde, Robert Baldwin Ross - Bigelow, Brown, 1910
O Retrato de Dorian Gray
“Qualquer indivíduo pode ser sensato, desde que não tenha imaginação.”
anybody can have common Sense, provided that they have no imagination.
House of pomegranates. The happy prince and other tales - Página 243, Oscar Wilde - Methuen, 1908