Oscar Wilde: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 38)

Oscar Wilde był angielski poeta, prozaik i dramatopisarz. Cytaty po angielsku.
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“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life. Mothers are different. Mothers are darlings.”

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Oscar Wilde Mąż idealny

Lord Goring, Act IV
An Ideal Husband (1895)

“The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable.”

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Oscar Wilde Bądźmy poważni na serio

Cecily, Act II
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive.”

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Lord Goring, Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)

“Only good questions deserve good answers.”

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Oscar Wilde książka De Profundis

De Profundis (1897)

“There are as many perfections as there are imperfect men. And while to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all.”

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Oscar Wilde książka The Soul of Man under Socialism

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.”

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Lord Goring, Act IV
An Ideal Husband (1895)

“As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.”

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Oscar Wilde książka The Soul of Man under Socialism

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“Lord Illingworth: Women have become too brilliant. Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.
Mrs. Allonby: Or the want of it in the man.”

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Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

Act I http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Women+have+become+too+brilliant+Nothing+spoils+a+romance+so+much+as+a+sense+of+humour+in+the+woman%22+%22or+the+want+of+it+in+the+man%22&pg=PA34#v=onepage
A Woman of No Importance (1893)

“This too I know—and wise it were
If each could know the same—
That every prison that men build
Is built with bricks of shame,
And bound with bars lest Christ should see
How men their brothers maim.”

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Oscar Wilde książka The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. V, st. 29
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

“There are few things easier than to live badly and to die well.”

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Oscar Wilde Vera; or, The Nihilists

Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)

“Lord Caversham: No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex.
Lord Goring: Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?”

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Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)

“Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.”

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Letter http://www.artsandartists.org/exhpages/whistler.html to James McNeill Whistler (23 February 1885)

“I cannot understand your nature. If my nature had been made to suit your comprehension rather than my own requirements, I am afraid I would have made a very poor figure in the world.”

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Oscar Wilde Vera; or, The Nihilists

Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)

“In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs for ever and ever.”

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Oscar Wilde książka The Soul of Man under Socialism

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“I never saw a man who looked
With such a wistful eye
Upon that little tent of blue
Which prisoners call the sky.”

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Oscar Wilde książka The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Pt. I, st. 3
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

“His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning.”

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Oscar Wilde książka The Decay of Lying

A reference to George Meredith's style.
The Decay of Lying (1889)

“There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them, or above each other—by language, which is the parent, and not the child, of thought.”

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The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I

“Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.”

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Mrs Cheveley, Act I
An Ideal Husband (1895)

“All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.”

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Oscar Wilde

"The Portrait of Mr. W. H.," Blackwood's Magazine, July 1889 http://books.google.com/books?id=QfczAQAAMAAJ&q=%22All+charming+people+I+fancy+are+spoiled+It+is+the+secret+of+their+attraction%22&pg=PA4#v=onepage