“Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.”
Источник: The Complete Fairy Tales
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Оскар Уайльд было ирландский поэт, драматург, писатель, эссеист. Цитаты на английском языке.Оскар Уайльд: 1242 цитаты4820 Нравится
“Only love can keep anyone alive…”
Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance
Источник: 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.
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Oscar Wilde книга Портрет Дориана Грея
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Obraz Doriana Graye)
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Источник: The Happy Prince and Other Stories
Вариант: 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.
Источник: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
Oscar Wilde книга Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Источник: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
“Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde книга Портрет Дориана Грея
Mr. Dumby, Act III. <br class="br">Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880) <br class="br">Вариант: Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. <br class="br">Вариант: Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. <br class="br">Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray <br class="br">Контексте: 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 книга The Canterville Ghost
Источник: 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 Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Darlington, Act I
Вариант: I can resist everything except temptation
Источник: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Oscar Wilde книга Портрет Дориана Грея
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde книга Портрет Дориана Грея
Lord Darlington, Act III.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Вариант: What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Контексте: A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. [Answering the question, what is a cynic? ]