Oscar-Wilde on Scholionhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/tags/oscar-wilde/Recent content in Oscar-Wilde on ScholionHugo -- gohugo.iopt-BR© 2026Wed, 27 May 2026 21:26:22 +0100A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing athttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-map-without-utopia/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-map-without-utopia/De The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891). Wilde defende a Utopia como categoria operacional do progresso humano.All art is quite uselesshttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-all-art-is-quite-useless/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-all-art-is-quite-useless/Última linha do Prefácio de The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Posição estética que Wilde defenderia em carta a Bernulf Clegg em 1891.Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so muchhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/forgive-enemies-nothing-annoys/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/forgive-enemies-nothing-annoys/Frase rotineiramente atribuída a Wilde, sem fonte primária localizada nas obras dele. Origem incerta.Be yourself; everyone else is already takenhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/be-yourself-everyone-else-already-taken/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/be-yourself-everyone-else-already-taken/Frase rotineiramente atribuída a Oscar Wilde. Não localizada em nenhum texto publicado dele. Origem moderna anônima.Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginativehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-consistency-last-refuge/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-consistency-last-refuge/Frase verificada de Wilde em ensaio The Relation of Dress to Art na Pall Mall Gazette, 28 de fevereiro de 1885. Resposta a James McNeill Whistler.Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtuehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-disobedience-original-virtue/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-disobedience-original-virtue/De The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891). Wilde inverte a doutrina do pecado original e arma a defesa anarquista do indivíduo.Everything in moderation, including moderationhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/everything-in-moderation-including-moderation/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/everything-in-moderation-including-moderation/Frase atribuída a Wilde, Mark Twain, Sócrates. Aparece anônima em 1927 em coletânea baseada em poesia grega antiga.Everything will be OK in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the endhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/everything-will-be-ok-in-the-end/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/everything-will-be-ok-in-the-end/Frase atribuída a Wilde, John Lennon, Paulo Coelho. Origem mais antiga e provável é Domingos Sabino, citada por Fernando Sabino em 1988.Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakeshttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-experience-name-mistakes/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-experience-name-mistakes/De Lady Windermere’s Fan, Ato III — Dumby, em conversa de fumódromo. Eufemismo invertido que Wilde repetiria em Dorian Gray com pequena variação.I can resist everything except temptationhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-resist-everything-except-temptation/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-resist-everything-except-temptation/De Lady Windermere’s Fan, Ato I — Lord Darlington flertando com Lady Windermere. Uma das fórmulas mais imitadas do humor wildeano.I drink to keep body and soul aparthttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/drink-keep-body-soul-apart/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/drink-keep-body-soul-apart/Frase atribuída a Wilde. Inversão da expressão idiomática keep body and soul together. Origem anônima; primeira citação em 1981.I have nothing to declare except my geniushttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/nothing-to-declare-except-genius/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/nothing-to-declare-except-genius/Suposta resposta de Wilde à alfândega de Nova York em 1882. Apocrífica — primeira aparição é de 1910, dez anos depois da morte.I never seek to take the credit; we all assume that Oscar said ithttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/we-all-assume-oscar-said-it/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/we-all-assume-oscar-said-it/Verso de Dorothy Parker em A Pig’s-Eye View Of Literature (1927) — registro humorístico do fenômeno de misatribuição automática a Wilde.I wish I had said that. — You will, Oscar, you willhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wish-i-had-said-that-you-will-oscar/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wish-i-had-said-that-you-will-oscar/Diálogo Wilde-Whistler frequentemente reproduzido. O encontro provavelmente ocorreu, mas a fala original que Wilde elogiou ficou perdida; circulam várias versões da troca.If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishmenthttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/grocer-or-general-job-punishment/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/grocer-or-general-job-punishment/Frase atribuída a Wilde em paráfrase de Stephen Fry, 2010. Wilde tem ideia próxima em De Profundis, mas com formulação diferente.Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatnesshttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/imitation-sincerest-flattery-mediocrity/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/imitation-sincerest-flattery-mediocrity/Frase atribuída a Wilde. A versão curta é de Charles Caleb Colton em 1820. A extensão sobre mediocridade é evolução posterior, anônima.In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting ithttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-two-tragedies/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-two-tragedies/De Lady Windermere’s Fan, Ato III — Mr. Dumby, na cena nos aposentos de Lord Darlington. Forma final de tópos que Wilde também tratou em An Ideal Husband.Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Lifehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-life-imitates-art/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-life-imitates-art/Tese central de The Decay of Lying (1889) — diálogo em forma platônica em que Vivian sustenta a inversão da mimesis aristotélica.Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thinghttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-life-not-complex-we-are/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-life-not-complex-we-are/Carta de Wilde a Robert Ross em 1 de abril de 1897, escrita ainda em Reading Gaol semanas antes da soltura.Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Arthttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-lying-beautiful-untrue/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-lying-beautiful-untrue/Conclusão de The Decay of Lying (1889). Vivian fecha as três doutrinas da nova estética — a defesa da mentira como ofício artístico.Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truthhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-man-least-himself-mask/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-man-least-himself-mask/De The Critic as Artist (1891), parte II — Gilbert a Ernest. Tese central da estética wildeana sobre verdade indireta.Nothing succeeds like excesshttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-nothing-succeeds-like-excess/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-nothing-succeeds-like-excess/De A Woman of No Importance, Ato III — Lord Illingworth. Reversão do provérbio Nothing succeeds like success, atribuído a Dumas pai.Nothing succeeds like undresshttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/nothing-succeeds-like-undress/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/nothing-succeeds-like-undress/Atribuída a Wilde e a Dorothy Parker. Apareceu anônima em 1906 como variação do Nothing succeeds like excess de Wilde (1893).The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aimhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-artist-creator-beautiful-things/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-artist-creator-beautiful-things/Primeiro aforismo do Prefácio de The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). Manifesto de abertura do programa estético wildeano.The English country gentleman galloping after a fox—the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatablehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-unspeakable-uneatable/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-unspeakable-uneatable/De A Woman of No Importance, Ato I — Lord Illingworth. Definição que virou slogan dos opositores britânicos à caça à raposa.The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a futurehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-saint-sinner-past-future/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-saint-sinner-past-future/De A Woman of No Importance, Ato III — Lord Illingworth. Inversão de catequese que Wilde vai retomar implicitamente em De Profundis.The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to ithttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-only-way-rid-temptation-yield/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-only-way-rid-temptation-yield/De The Picture of Dorian Gray, capítulo 2 — Lord Henry corrompendo Dorian. Frase que prefigura a trajetória do romance.The supreme vice is shallownesshttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-supreme-vice-shallowness/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-supreme-vice-shallowness/Refrão de De Profundis, a longa carta que Wilde escreveu em Reading Gaol entre janeiro e março de 1897 a Lord Alfred Douglas.The truth is rarely pure and never simplehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-truth-rarely-pure-never-simple/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-truth-rarely-pure-never-simple/De The Importance of Being Earnest, Ato I — Algernon a Jack. Linha que abre uma sequência sobre mentira e respeitabilidade.There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is allhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-no-such-thing-moral-immoral-book/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-no-such-thing-moral-immoral-book/Aforismo do Prefácio de The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), em resposta direta às acusações de imoralidade contra a serialização de 1890.There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked abouthttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-being-talked-about-or-not/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-being-talked-about-or-not/De The Picture of Dorian Gray, capítulo 1 — Lord Henry argumentando para Basil expor o retrato. Inversão da máxima vitoriana sobre reputação.To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessnesshttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-lose-one-parent-carelessness/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-lose-one-parent-carelessness/De The Importance of Being Earnest, Ato I — Lady Bracknell ao examinar Jack Worthing. Linha mais citada da peça mais citada de Wilde.We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the starshttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-gutter-looking-at-stars/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-gutter-looking-at-stars/De Lady Windermere’s Fan, Ato III — Lord Darlington em sua sala de fumar, em meio a uma roda de homens da sociedade. Inscrição na sepultura de Wilde no Père-Lachaise.What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothinghttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-cynic-price-value/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-cynic-price-value/De Lady Windermere’s Fan, Ato III — Lord Darlington responde a Cecil Graham. Definição que se descolou da peça e virou aforismo independente.Yet each man kills the thing he loveshttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-each-man-kills-thing-he-loves/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:08:19 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/wilde-each-man-kills-thing-he-loves/Estrofe-refrão de The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), o último poema longo de Wilde, escrito após a saída da prisão.O céu e o inferno são portáteishttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/ceu-e-inferno-sao-portateis/Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:38:29 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/ceu-e-inferno-sao-portateis/Aforismo popular sem autoria verificável. A ideia aparece em Milton (1667), Oscar Wilde (1890) e Neil Gaiman (1990), cada um com formulação própria.