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
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde buch The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Pt. II, st. 9
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermeres Fächer
Cecil Graham, Act II
Quelle: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Oscar Wilde Lady Windermeres Fächer
Lord Darlington, Act I
Quelle: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
“sorrow… is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of
love touches it”
Oscar Wilde buch De Profundis
Quelle: De Profundis
“If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.”
Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon, Act I.
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Kontext: I really don’t see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
“Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations.”
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest
“Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.”
Oscar Wilde buch Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)