Oscar Wilde: Frasi in inglese

Oscar Wilde era poeta, aforista e scrittore irlandese. Frasi in inglese.
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“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”

Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray

Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

Oscar Wilde libro L'anima dell'uomo sotto il socialismo

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Contesto: 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.”

Variante: Always forgive your enemies — nothing annoys them so much.

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

Oscar Wilde Il ventaglio di Lady Windermere

Lord Darlington, Act III
Origine: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

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

Oscar Wilde libro L'anima dell'uomo sotto il socialismo

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)
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.
Bears some resemblance to Machiavelli's deathbed dream https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Niccol%C3%B2_Machiavelli#Disputed.
Disputed

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

Oscar Wilde libro 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 Il ventaglio di Lady Windermere

Lord Darlington, Act I
Origine: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

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

Oscar Wilde Un marito ideale

Lord Goring, Act III
Origine: An Ideal Husband (1895)