Oscar Wilde: Zitate auf Englisch

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“I was wrong. God's law is only Love.”

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Oscar Wilde Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung

Quelle: A Woman of No Importance

“You are Beautiful when you are happy”

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Oscar Wilde Ein idealer Gatte

Quelle: An Ideal Husband

“Friendship… is not something you learn in school, but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.”

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Oscar Wilde

“I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.
It never is, sir.
Lane, you're a perfect pessimist.
I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest

“Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

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

“I want to make Romeo jealous! I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.”

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Oscar Wilde

“Jack: Actually, I was found.
Lady Bracknell: Found?
Jack: Uh, yes, I was in… a handbag.
Lady Bracknell: A handbag?
Jack: Yes, it was…
[makes gestures]
Jack: an ordinary handbag.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest

“It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.”

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Oscar Wilde Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung

Quelle: A Woman of No Importance

“I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.”

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Oscar Wilde Lady Windermeres Fächer

Quelle: Lady Windermere's Fan

“The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us.”

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Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.”

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Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.”

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Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself”

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Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life… I have put only my talent into my works.”

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Oscar Wilde