“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya
Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Some things are more precious because they don't last long.”
Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya
Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“There is no sin except stupidity.”
Źródło: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.”
Źródło: The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Selected Critical Prose
“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, edited by Alvin Redman (1954)
Oscar Wilde Mąż idealny
Lord Goring, Act I
Wariant: The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.
Źródło: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
Oscar Wilde Bądźmy poważni na serio
Miss Prism, Act II
Źródło: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
“Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya
Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya
Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya
Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya
Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Only the shallow know themselves.”
Oscar Wilde książka Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)