Oscar Wilde: Zitate auf Englisch

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.”

“I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there”

“What of Art?
-It is a malady.
--Love?
-An Illusion.
--Religion?
-The fashionable substitute for Belief.
--You are a sceptic.
-Never! Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.
--What are you?
-To define is to limit.”

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.”

“How else but through a broken heart
May Lord Christ enter in?”

“A flower blossoms for its own joy.”

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”

“Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary.”

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

“Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.”

“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”

“I like men who have a future and women who have a past.”

“There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands.”