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“The number of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one’s clean linen in public.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Algernon, Act I
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“Reported as Oscar Wilde's last words on his death bed…
This wallpaper is killing me. One of us has to go.”

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Oscar Wilde

“I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.”

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Oscar Wilde buch De Profundis

Quelle: De Profundis

“I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest

“The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.”

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Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.”

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Oscar Wilde buch The Happy Prince and Other Tales

Quelle: The Happy Prince and Other Tales

“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”

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Oscar Wilde

Variante: The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

“I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Gwendolen, Act II
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.”

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Oscar Wilde

The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I

“Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest

“I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.”

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Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Life cheats us with shadows.
We ask it for pleasure.
It gives it to us with bitterness
and disappointment in its train.”

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Oscar Wilde