Oscar Wilde: Zitate auf Englisch
Oscar Wilde war irischer Schriftsteller. Zitate auf Englisch.Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”
Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“If one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon, Act I.
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Kontext: Of course the music is a great difficulty. You see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk.
Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.”
Variante: America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up.
“She is a peacock in everything but beauty!”
Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.”
Oscar Wilde Ein idealer Gatte
Quelle: An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest
“Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.”
Oscar Wilde buch Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”
Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings