“Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.”
Źródło: The Complete Fairy Tales
Oscar Wilde: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 3)
Oscar Wilde był angielski poeta, prozaik i dramatopisarz. Cytaty po angielsku.
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“Only love can keep anyone alive…”
Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance
Źródło: 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.
Disputed
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Źródło: The Happy Prince and Other Stories
Wariant: 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.
Źródło: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
Oscar Wilde
książka
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Źródło: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
“Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde
książka
Portret Doriana Graya
Mr. Dumby, Act III.
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
Wariant: Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Wariant: Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Kontekst: 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
książka
The Canterville Ghost
Źródło: 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
Wachlarz Lady Windermere
Lord Darlington, Act I
Wariant: I can resist everything except temptation
Źródło: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
książka
Portret Doriana Graya
Lord Darlington, Act III.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Wariant: What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Kontekst: A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. [Answering the question, what is a cynic? ]