“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”
Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya
Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”
Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya
Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde książka The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Kontekst: With the abolition of private property, then, we shall have true, beautiful, healthy Individualism. Nobody will waste his life in accumulating things, and the symbols for things. One will live. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Wariant: Always forgive your enemies — nothing annoys them so much.
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
Źródło: The Duchess of Padua
Oscar Wilde książka Portret Doriana Graya
Źródło: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde Wachlarz Lady Windermere
Lord Darlington, Act III
Źródło: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Oscar Wilde książka The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there”
No known source in Oscar Wilde's works. Earliest known example of a similar quote comes from a 2001 usenet post https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=alt.atheism/ZadPWBw-wew/G_3tx370wpoJ (not attributed to Wilde) <br class="br">Attributed to Wilde on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/15736-i-don-t-want-to-go-to-heaven-none-of-my?page=83 some time on or before January 2008. <br class="br">Bears some resemblance to Machiavelli's deathbed dream https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli#Disputed. <br class="br">Disputed
“How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?”
Oscar Wilde książka The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Pt. V, st. 14
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
Oscar Wilde Wachlarz Lady Windermere
Lord Darlington, Act I
Źródło: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Oscar Wilde Mąż idealny
Lord Goring, Act III
Źródło: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
Oscar Wilde Mąż idealny
Źródło: An Ideal Husband