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“How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?
A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!”

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Oscar Wilde Lady Windermeres Fächer

Quelle: Lady Windermere's Fan

“we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others”

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Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well.

Algernon. I’m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta.

Lady Bracknell. That’s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest

“It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.”

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Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Time is a waste of money.”

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Oscar Wilde

Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
Quelle: Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

“To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Lady Bracknell, Act III
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

“But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.”

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Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Jack: “Gwendolen, wait here for me.”
Gwendolen: “If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest

“The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.”

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Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.”

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Oscar Wilde

“It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.”

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Oscar Wilde buch The Model Millionaire

The Model Millionaire (1912)