“Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.”
Fuente: The Complete Fairy Tales
Oscar Wilde: Frases en inglés (página 3)
Oscar Wilde era escritor irlandés. Frases en inglés.
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“Only love can keep anyone alive…”
Oscar Wilde
Una mujer sin importancia
Fuente: A Woman of No Importance
This quote was instead first mentioned in a 1931 book titled “Since Calvary: An Interpretation of Christian History” by the comparative religion specialist Lewis Browne.
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Oscar Wilde
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El retrato de Dorian Gray
Fuente: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Obraz Doriana Graye)
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Fuente: The Happy Prince and Other Stories
Variante: A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Fuente: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
Oscar Wilde
libro
El crimen de lord Arthur Saville y otras historias
Fuente: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
“Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde
libro
El retrato de Dorian Gray
Mr. Dumby, Act III.
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
Variante: Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Variante: Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Fuente: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Contexto: Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. [First used by Wilde in Vera; or, The Nihilists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera;_or,_The_Nihilists. ]
Oscar Wilde
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El Fantasma de Canterville
Fuente: The Canterville Ghost http://www.planetmonk.com/wilde/savile/canterville.c1.html (1887)
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
Oscar Wilde
El abanico de Lady Windermere
Lord Darlington, Act I
Variante: I can resist everything except temptation
Fuente: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
libro
El retrato de Dorian Gray
Lord Darlington, Act III.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Variante: What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Fuente: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Contexto: A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. [Answering the question, what is a cynic? ]