“Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.”
Quelle: The Complete Fairy Tales
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“Only love can keep anyone alive…”
Oscar Wilde
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
Quelle: A Woman of No Importance
This quote was instead first mentioned in a 1931 book titled “Since Calvary: An Interpretation of Christian History” by the comparative religion specialist Lewis Browne.
Disputed
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Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Obraz Doriana Graye)
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Quelle: The Happy Prince and Other Stories
Variante: A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Quelle: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
Oscar Wilde
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Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen und andere Geschichten
Quelle: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
“Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde
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Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Mr. Dumby, Act III.
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
Variante: Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Variante: Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Kontext: Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. [First used by Wilde in Vera; or, The Nihilists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera;_or,_The_Nihilists. ]
Oscar Wilde
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Das Gespenst von Canterville
Quelle: The Canterville Ghost http://www.planetmonk.com/wilde/savile/canterville.c1.html (1887)
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermeres Fächer
Lord Darlington, Act I
Variante: I can resist everything except temptation
Quelle: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
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Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Lord Darlington, Act III.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Variante: What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Kontext: A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. [Answering the question, what is a cynic? ]