Oscar Wilde: Cytaty po angielsku

Oscar Wilde był angielski poeta, prozaik i dramatopisarz. Cytaty po angielsku.
Oscar Wilde: 998 cytatów58 Polubień

“For to disagree with three-fourths of the British public on all points is one of the first elements of sanity, one of the deepest consolations in all moments of spiritual doubt.”

Oscar Wilde

The English Renaissance of Art https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/w/wilde/oscar/english-renaissance-of-art/ (1882)

“An Irish gentleman is someone who can play the bagpipes but won’t.”

Oscar Wilde

First ascribed to Wilde by The Boston Globe in 1991. The joke probably appeared for the first time in 1917, when The Atchison Weekly Globe attributed it to a local man named Frank Fiest. <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Źródło: My Idea of a Gentleman Is He Who Can Play a Cornet and Won’t, Quote Investigator, 14 August 2021 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/04/21/cornet/,

“The only possible society is oneself.”

Oscar Wilde Mąż idealny

Lord Goring, Act III
An Ideal Husband (1895)

“In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press. That is an Improvement certainly. but still it is very bad, and wrong, and demoralising. Somebody - was it Burke?”

Oscar Wilde książka The Soul of Man under Socialism

called journalism the fourth estate. That was true at the time, no doubt. But at the present moment it really is the only estate. It has eaten up the other three. The Lords Temporal say nothing, The Lords Spiritual have nothing to say and the House of Commons has nothing to say and says it. We are dominated by journalism. <br class="br">The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891) <br class="br">Źródło: Wilde, Oscar, (1891 / 1912) The Soul of Man Under Socialism, London, Arthur L. Humphreys. Retrieved from University of California Libraries Archive.org https://archive.org 13 February 2018 https://archive.org/details/soulofmanunderso00wildiala

“One can survive everything nowadays except death.”

Oscar Wilde

&quot; Oscariana http://books.google.com/books?id=2otbAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=&amp;quot;One+can+survive+everything+nowadays+except+death&amp;quot;&amp;pg=PA65#v=onepage&quot; (1907)

“All art is immoral.”

Oscar Wilde książka Intentions

Intentions (1891)