Oscar Wilde Zitate

408 inspirierende Worte für Ihre einzigartige Stimme

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 1. Akt / Lord Darlington
Original engl.: "I can resist everything except temptation."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, Kapitel 2 / Lord Henry
Original engl.: "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Ein idealer Gatte, 2. Akt / Lord Goring
Original engl.: "Life is never fair […]. And perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.."
Ein idealer Gatte - An Ideal Husband

Sätze und Lehren zum Gebrauch für die Jugend
Original engl.: "To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
Sätze und Lehren zum Gebrauch für die Jugend - Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen
Original engl.: "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
Die Seele des Menschen im Sozialismus - The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Variante: Leben - es gibt nichts Selteneres auf der Welt. Die meisten Menschen existieren, weiter nichts.

Maximen zur Belehrung der Übergebildeten, Maxime 12
Original engl.: "Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."
Maximen zur Belehrung der Übergebildeten - A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated

Ein idealer Gatte, 2. Akt / Mrs. Cheveley
Original engl.: "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike."
Ein idealer Gatte - An Ideal Husband

Die bedeutende Rakete / die Rakete
Original engl.: "I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
Die bedeutende Rakete - The Remarkable Rocket

Ernst muß man sein, 3. Akt / Lady Bracknell
Original engl.: "Health is the primary duty of life."
Bunbury oder Ernst muß man sein - Bunbury or The Importance of Being Earnest

Ernst muß man sein, 1. Akt / Jack
Original engl.: "When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people."
Bunbury oder Ernst muß man sein - Bunbury or The Importance of Being Earnest

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 2. Akt / Lord Darlington
Original engl.: "Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Maximen zur Belehrung der Übergebildeten, Maxime 8
Original engl.: "Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer."
Maximen zur Belehrung der Übergebildeten - A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated

Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung, 1. Akt / Lord Illingworth, Mrs. Allonby
Original engl.: "The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy."
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung - A Woman of No Importance

Ernst muß man sein, 2. Akt / Gwendolen
Original engl.: "I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
Bunbury oder Ernst muß man sein - Bunbury or The Importance of Being Earnest

Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen, 1. Akt
Original engl.: "The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, Kapitel 1, S.18 / Lord Henry
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Der ergebene Freund / der Müller
Original engl.: "Generosity is the essence of friendship."
Der ergebene Freund - The Devoted Friend

Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen, 3. Akt / Lady Clementina
Original engl.: "Though I hate doctors, I love medicines."
Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

Sämtliche Werke in deutscher Sprache, 5. Band: Betrachtungen. Übersetzt von Emanuela Mattl - Löwenkreuz, Max Meyerfeld und Paul Wertheimer. Wien, Leipzig: Wiener Verlag 1906
Original engl.: "What is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months." - "Literary and Other Notes I" in: The Woman's World, November 1887
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Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, Kapitel 18
Original engl.: "Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination."
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray - The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, Kapitel 5
Original engl.: "Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variante: Anfangs lieben Kinder ihre Eltern; wenn sie älter werden, halten sie Gericht über sie; selten, wenn überhaupt, verzeihen sie ihnen.

Der Kritiker als Künstler, Szene 2 / Gilbert
Original engl.: "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
Der Kritiker als Künstler - The Critic As Artist

Der Kritiker als Künstler, Szene 2 / Gilbert
Original engl.: "To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual."
Der Kritiker als Künstler - The Critic As Artist

Der Kritiker als Künstler, Szene 2 / Gilbert
Original engl.: "As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."
Der Kritiker als Künstler - The Critic As Artist

Der Verfall der Lüge / Cyril
Original engl.: "If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use reading it at all."
Der Verfall der Lüge - The Decay Of Lying

Die Herzogin von Padua, 5. Akt / Die Herzogin
Original engl.: "We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
Die Herzogin von Padua - The Duchess of Padua

Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen
Original engl.: "It is not selfish to think for oneself. A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."
Die Seele des Menschen im Sozialismus - The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Feder, Pinsel und Gift
Original engl.: "A mask tells us more than a face."
Feder, Pinsel und Gift - Pen, Pencil And Poison (1889)

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 1. Akt, Lord Darlington
Original engl.: "It's a curious thing about the game of marriage - a game, by the way, that is going out of fashion - the wives hold all the honours, and invariably lose the odd trick."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

The Young King and Other Stories

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, Kapitel 15 / Lady Narborough
Original engl.: "They get up early [on the country], because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about."
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, Kapitel 16
Original engl.: "One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault."
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray - The Picture of Dorian Gray

De Profundis
Original engl.: "To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development."
De Profundis - Epistola: In Carcere Et Vinculis

Der Kritiker als Künstler, Szene 1 / Gilbert
Original engl.: "Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
Der Kritiker als Künstler - The Critic As Artist

Der Kritiker als Künstler, Szene 2 / Gilbert
Original engl.: "We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid."
Der Kritiker als Künstler - The Critic As Artist

Die Ballade vom Reading Gefängnis, V, 14. Strophe
Original engl.: "How else but through a broken heart // May Lord Christ enter in?"
Die Ballade vom Reading Gefängnis - Ballad Of Reading Gaol

Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen
Original engl.: "A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses."
Die Seele des Menschen im Sozialismus - The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Maximen zur Belehrung der Übergebildeten, Maxime 19
Original engl.: "Those whom the gods love grow young.")
Anspielung auf den Satz "Those whom the gods love die young." ("Wen die Götter lieben, stirbt jung."
Maximen zur Belehrung der Übergebildeten - A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated

"The Children of the Poets", Pall Mall Gazette, 14. Oktober 1886
Original engl.: "A poet can survive everything but a misprint."
Andere Quellen

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories