Oscar Wilde: Frases en inglés (página 27)

Fuente: De Profundis

Fuente: The Importance of Being Earnest

Fuente: The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde

Fuente: A Woman of No Importance

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Contexto: All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Fuente: A Woman of No Importance

Fuente: De Profundis

Fuente: The Importance of Being Earnest

The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (1889), p. 5
Fuente: Lady Windermere's Fan

Fuente: The Canterville Ghost

Fuente: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Contexto: For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is. Private property has crushed true Individualism, and set up an Individualism that is false. It has debarred one part of the community from being individual by starving them. It has debarred the other part of the community from being individual by putting them on the wrong road and encumbering them.

Fuente: An Ideal Husband

Fuente: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Fuente: An Ideal Husband