Oscar Wilde: Frases en inglés

Oscar Wilde era escritor irlandés. Frases en inglés.
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“I'm too old to know everything”

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Oscar Wilde

J. M. Barrie The Admirable Crichton, Act I (1903).
Misattributed
Variante: I'm not young enough to know everything.

“Experience is a question of instinct about life.”

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Oscar Wilde El abanico de Lady Windermere

Fuente: Lady Windermere's Fan

“Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.”

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Oscar Wilde libro De profundis

Fuente: De Profundis

“For he who lives more lives than one
More deaths than one must die.”

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Oscar Wilde libro The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. III, st. 22
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Fuente: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

“Conscience makes egotists of us all.”

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Oscar Wilde libro El retrato de Dorian Gray

Fuente: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.”

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Oscar Wilde libro The Decay of Lying

The Decay of Lying (1889)

“I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can’t go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left.”

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Oscar Wilde La importancia de llamarse Ernesto

Fuente: The Importance of Being Earnest

“The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding.”

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Oscar Wilde libro El crimen de lord Arthur Saville y otras historias

Fuente: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

“I hope you hair curls naturally, does it?
Yes, darling, with a little help from others.”

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Oscar Wilde La importancia de llamarse Ernesto

Fuente: The Importance of Being Earnest

“So with curious eyes and sick surmise
We watched him day by day,
And wondered if each one of us
Would end the self-same way,
For none can tell to what red Hell
His sightless soul may stray.”

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Oscar Wilde

“Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.”

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Oscar Wilde libro El retrato de Dorian Gray

Fuente: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.”

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Oscar Wilde libro El retrato de Dorian Gray

Fuente: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.”

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Oscar Wilde La importancia de llamarse Ernesto

Fuente: The Importance of Being Earnest

“I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.”

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Oscar Wilde libro El retrato de Dorian Gray

Fuente: The Picture of Dorian Gray