Oscar Wilde: Zitate auf Englisch
Oscar Wilde war irischer Schriftsteller. Zitate auf Englisch.Oscar Wilde: 1222 Zitate540 Gefällt mir
“Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
Quelle: Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.”
Oscar Wilde buch The Decay of Lying
The Decay of Lying (1889)
“We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.”
Quelle: The Critic as Artist
“Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.”
Oscar Wilde Ein idealer Gatte
Lord Goring, Act III.
Variante: The only possible society is oneself.
Quelle: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“I know. In fact, I am never wrong.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
Lord Illingworth http://books.google.com/books?id=RHkWAAAAYAAJ&q=&quot;The+only+difference+between+the+saint+and+the+sinner+is+that+every+saint+has+a+past+and+every+sinner+has+a+future&quot;&pg=PA119#v=onepage, Act III <br class="br">A Woman of No Importance (1893)
“Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.”
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
“Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermeres Fächer
Quelle: Lady Windermere's Fan
“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”
Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.”
Oscar Wilde buch Das Gespenst von Canterville
Quelle: The Canterville Ghost
“A poet can survive everything but a misprint.”
"The Children of the Poets," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.online-literature.com/wilde/1307/ (October 14, 1886) <br class="br">Variante: One can survive everything nowadays except death.
“Most people are boring and stupid.”
Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray