Oscar Wilde: Frases en inglés (página 33)
Oscar Wilde era escritor irlandés. Frases en inglés.
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“He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.”
Oscar Wilde
Un marido ideal
Fuente: An Ideal Husband
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”
Oscar Wilde
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El retrato de Dorian Gray
Fuente: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.”
Oscar Wilde
Un marido ideal
Mrs Cheveley, Act I
Usually quoted as: No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
Fuente: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“Everyone quoted it, it was full of so many words that they could not understand.”
Oscar Wilde
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The Happy Prince
Fuente: The Happy Prince
“Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”
Oscar Wilde
El abanico de Lady Windermere
Cecil Graham http://books.google.com/books?id=8SzYgCNz-vwC&q="Gossip+is+charming+History+is+merely+gossip+But+scandal+is+gossip+made+tedious+by+morality"&pg=PT52#v=onepage, Act III
Variante: Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Fuente: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.”
Fuente: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories
“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.”
Oscar Wilde
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El alma del hombre bajo el socialismo
Fuente: The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Oscar Wilde
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El alma del hombre bajo el socialismo
Fuente: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.”
Oscar Wilde
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El retrato de Dorian Gray
Variante: People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
Fuente: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is.”
Oscar Wilde
Un marido ideal
Fuente: An Ideal Husband
“I have a business appointment that I am anxious… to miss.”
Oscar Wilde
La importancia de llamarse Ernesto
Fuente: The Importance of Being Earnest
The Harlot's House http://www.poetry-archive.com/w/the_harlots_house.html, st. 12 (1885)