Oscar Wilde: Frases en inglés

Oscar Wilde era escritor irlandés. Frases en inglés.
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“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”

Oscar Wilde

Variante: Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six month.

Oscar Wilde frase: “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

Oscar Wilde libro El retrato de Dorian Gray

Fuente: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.”

Oscar Wilde Una mujer sin importancia

Fuente: A Woman of No Importance

“Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.”

Oscar Wilde libro El retrato de Dorian Gray

Mrs. Arbuthnot http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&amp;q=%22Children+begin+by+loving+their+parents+after+a+time%22+%22they+judge+them+rarely+if+ever+do+they+forgive+them%22&amp;pg=PA187#v=onepage, Act IV <br class="br">A Woman of No Importance (1893) <br class="br">Variante: Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. <br class="br">Fuente: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune … to lose both seems like carelessness.”

Oscar Wilde La importancia de llamarse Ernesto

Lady Bracknell, Act I
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“Yet each man kills the thing he loves
By each let this be heard,
Some do it with a bitter look,
Some with a flattering word,
The coward does it with a kiss,
The brave man with a sword!”

Oscar Wilde libro The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. I, st. 7
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Fuente: The Ballad Of Reading Gaol

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

Oscar Wilde

A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)

“Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.”

Oscar Wilde libro El retrato de Dorian Gray

Variante: One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Fuente: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.”

Oscar Wilde libro El retrato de Dorian Gray

Fuente: The Picture of Dorian Gray