Оскар Уайльд: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 7)
Оскар Уайльд было ирландский поэт, драматург, писатель, эссеист. Цитаты на английском языке.“Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Already Taken.”
Anonymous advertising copywriter for Menards chain of hardware stores (2000), according to Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/20/be-yourself
Misattributed
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.”
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
Источник: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Контексте: Jack: That, my dear Algy, is the whole truth pure and simple.
Algernon: The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!
Act I
Often quoted as "The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple."
“Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.”
Вариант: Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
“A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”
The Portrait of Mr. W. H. http://www.planetmonk.com/wilde/portrait/wh01.html (1889)
In a letter to Ada Leverson [Sphinx] recorded in her book Letters To The Sphinx From Oscar Wilde and Reminiscences of the Author (1930)
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
Вариант: The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Источник: The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
Вариант: I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability.
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
A version of this quote was published anonymously in an insurance magazine in 1908 https://books.google.com/books?id=S2JJAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA375&dq=%22others+whenever+they+go%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwja94i3iaXLAhUY7mMKHW5fAGIQ6AEIJjAC#v=onepage&q=%22others%20whenever%20they%20go%22&f=false. The earliest attribution to Wilde was in 1955 https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&hl=en&q=%22others+whenever+they+go%22+wilde#hl=en&tbs=cdr:1%2Ccd_min:1900%2Ccd_max:1999&tbm=bks&q=%22others+whenever+they+go+oscar+wilde+jive%22; no source in Wilde's writings has been found.
Disputed
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it.”
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
As quoted in Oscar Wilde : An Idler's Impression (1917) http://books.google.com/books?id=ddAVAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=edgar+saltus+wilde&cd=3#v=snippet&q=satisfied&f=false by Edgar Saltus, p. 20
“I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.”
Источник: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.”
Вариант: Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six month.