“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? ]
Oscar Wilde книга Портрет Дориана Грея
Вариант: If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Ah! Don't say you agree with me. When people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”
This also appears in Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act II
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
“Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
Вариант: Often quoted as: Life is far too important to be taken seriously.
Вариант: Often quoted as: Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Вариант: Often quoted as: Life is too important to take seriously.
Источник: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Lord Darlington, Act I
Oscar Wilde книга Портрет Дориана Грея
Lord Illingworth, Act III.
A Woman of No Importance (1893)
Вариант: Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.”
Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband
Mrs Chevely, Act I
An Ideal Husband (1895)
Oscar Wilde книга Портрет Дориана Грея
Вариант: I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“If you are not long, I will wait for you all my life.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Gwendolen, Act III.
The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Вариант: If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
Oscar Wilde книга The Happy Prince and Other Tales
" The Remarkable Rocket http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/179/". <br class="br">The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) <br class="br">Вариант: Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.
“Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”
Oscar Wilde книга Портрет Дориана Грея
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
Oscar Wilde книга Портрет Дориана Грея
Вариант: Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde книга Портрет Дориана Грея
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde книга Портрет Дориана Грея
Вариант: There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”
Источник: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
