Oscar Wilde: Frases en inglés
Oscar Wilde era escritor irlandés. Frases en inglés.“For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.”
Variante: For one moment our lives met our souls touched.
Oscar Wilde libro El alma del hombre bajo el socialismo
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.”
Oscar Wilde libro De profundis
Fuente: De Profundis
“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”
Oscar Wilde libro El príncipe feliz y otros cuentos
Fuente: The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Oscar Wilde libro El retrato de Dorian Gray
Fuente: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
Oscar Wilde Un marido ideal
Lord Goring, Act II
Fuente: An Ideal Husband (1895)
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
Contexto: There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
Contexto: Puritans cannot destroy a beautiful thing, yet, by means of their extraordinary prurience, they can almost taint beauty for a moment. It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Contexto: It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
Oscar Wilde Una mujer sin importancia
Fuente: A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde La importancia de llamarse Ernesto
Algernon, Act I.
Variante: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
Fuente: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Oscar Wilde libro El retrato de Dorian Gray
Fuente: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde libro The Nightingale and the Rose
Fuente: The Nightingale and the Rose
Oscar Wilde Un marido ideal
Sir Robert Chiltern, Act II
Fuente: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”
Oscar Wilde libro El Fantasma de Canterville
Fuente: The Canterville Ghost http://www.oscarwildecollection.com/savile/canterville.c1.html (1887). For history and analysis of the quote see Common Language http://oscarwildeinamerica.org/quotations/common-language.html.