“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”
Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Variante: Always forgive your enemies — nothing annoys them so much.
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde buch Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Kontext: 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.
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
Quelle: The Duchess of Padua
Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermeres Fächer
Lord Darlington, Act III
Quelle: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Oscar Wilde buch Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen
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 buch 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 Lady Windermeres Fächer
Lord Darlington, Act I
Quelle: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Oscar Wilde Ein idealer Gatte
Lord Goring, Act III
Quelle: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
Oscar Wilde Ein idealer Gatte
Quelle: An Ideal Husband