“For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.”
Вариант: For one moment our lives met our souls touched.
Оскар Уайльд: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 6)
Оскар Уайльд было ирландский поэт, драматург, писатель, эссеист. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.”
Oscar Wilde
книга
De Profundis
Источник: De Profundis
“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”
Oscar Wilde
книга
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Источник: The Happy Prince and Other Tales
“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
Oscar Wilde
An Ideal Husband
Lord Goring, Act II
Источник: An Ideal Husband (1895)
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
Контексте: There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
Контексте: Puritans cannot destroy a beautiful thing, yet, by means of their extraordinary prurience, they can almost taint beauty for a moment. It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Контексте: It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon, Act I.
Вариант: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
Источник: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
“We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”
Oscar Wilde
книга
The Canterville Ghost
Источник: The Canterville Ghost http://www.oscarwildecollection.com/savile/canterville.c1.html (1887). For history and analysis of the quote see Common Language http://oscarwildeinamerica.org/quotations/common-language.html.