“You will always love, and you will always be loved.”
Oscar Wilde kniha Obraz Doriana Graye
Zdroj: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde: Citáty anglicky
Oscar Wilde byl dramatik, prozaik a básník. Citáty anglicky.Oscar Wilde: 1320 citátů19635 lajků
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
Oscar Wilde kniha The Soul of Man under Socialism
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.
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Varianta: Always forgive your enemies — nothing annoys them so much.
“We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.”
Zdroj: The Duchess of Padua
Oscar Wilde kniha Obraz Doriana Graye
Zdroj: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Darlington, Act III
Zdroj: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Oscar Wilde kniha 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 kniha 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 Windermere's Fan
Lord Darlington, Act I
Zdroj: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband
Lord Goring, Act III
Zdroj: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.”
Oscar Wilde An Ideal Husband
Zdroj: An Ideal Husband