Oscar Wilde: Zitate auf Englisch
Oscar Wilde war irischer Schriftsteller. Zitate auf Englisch.“When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.”
Oscar Wilde Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
Quelle: A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
Quelle: A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde buch Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Kontext: All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
“The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married.”
Oscar Wilde Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
Quelle: A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest
“It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.”
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermeres Fächer
The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (1889), p. 5
Quelle: Lady Windermere's Fan
“You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[. ]”
Oscar Wilde buch Das Gespenst von Canterville
Quelle: The Canterville Ghost
“The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.”
Oscar Wilde buch Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen
Quelle: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Kontext: For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing was to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be. The true perfection of man lies, not in what man has, but in what man is. Private property has crushed true Individualism, and set up an Individualism that is false. It has debarred one part of the community from being individual by starving them. It has debarred the other part of the community from being individual by putting them on the wrong road and encumbering them.
“this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night”
Oscar Wilde Ein idealer Gatte
Quelle: An Ideal Husband
“A burnt child loves the fire.”
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray