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“He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.”

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Oscar Wilde Ein idealer Gatte

Quelle: An Ideal Husband

“Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.”

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Oscar Wilde Salome

Quelle: Salomé

“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.”

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Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.”

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Oscar Wilde Ein idealer Gatte

Mrs Cheveley, Act I
Usually quoted as: No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
Quelle: An Ideal Husband (1895)

“Everyone quoted it, it was full of so many words that they could not understand.”

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Oscar Wilde buch The Happy Prince

Quelle: The Happy Prince

“Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”

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Oscar Wilde Lady Windermeres Fächer

Cecil Graham http://books.google.com/books?id=8SzYgCNz-vwC&q="Gossip+is+charming+History+is+merely+gossip+But+scandal+is+gossip+made+tedious+by+morality"&pg=PT52#v=onepage, Act III
Variante: Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Quelle: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

“Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses.”

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Oscar Wilde

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Selected Stories

“The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.”

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Oscar Wilde buch Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen

Quelle: The Soul of Man Under Socialism

“Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.”

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Oscar Wilde buch Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen

Quelle: The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

“The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.”

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Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery?
LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood.
MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last.
LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm.”

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Oscar Wilde Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung

Quelle: A Woman of No Importance

“People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.”

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Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Variante: People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The sky was pure opal now.”

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Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.”

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Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk.
HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal.
MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen!”

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Oscar Wilde Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung

Quelle: A Woman of No Importance

“I have a business appointment that I am anxious… to miss.”

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Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest

“And down the long and silent street,
The dawn, with silver-sandalled feet,
Crept like a frightened girl.”

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Oscar Wilde

The Harlot's House http://www.poetry-archive.com/w/the_harlots_house.html, st. 12 (1885)

“I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram.”

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Oscar Wilde

Written in a letter from Reading Prison to Lord Alfred Douglas in early 1897