Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories
Oscar Wilde: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 21)
Oscar Wilde był angielski poeta, prozaik i dramatopisarz. Cytaty po angielsku.
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“Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.”
Oscar Wilde
książka
The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Kontekst: Art is this intense form of individualism that makes the public try to exercise over it an authority that is as immoral as it is ridiculous, and as corrupting as it is contemptible. It is not quite their fault. The public have always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity. Now Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
“The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.”
Oscar Wilde
książka
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
“But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.”
Oscar Wilde
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Portret Doriana Graya
Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.”
Oscar Wilde
Wachlarz Lady Windermere
Mr. Dumby, Act II
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Oscar Wilde
książka
A House of Pomegranates
"The Birthday of the Infanta", The House of Pomegranates http://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/classic_books_online/hpomg10.htm (1892)
Źródło: A House of Pomegranates
“She knew nothing but she had everything he had lost.”
Oscar Wilde
książka
Portret Doriana Graya
Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.”
Oscar Wilde
książka
Portret Doriana Graya
Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray