“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde: Frasi in inglese
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“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 each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
Origine: The Duchess of Padua
Oscar Wilde libro Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Origine: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“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)
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) <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 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)
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
Oscar Wilde Un marito ideale
Origine: An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde Il ventaglio di Lady Windermere
Origine: Lady Windermere's Fan