Oscar Wilde: Zitate auf Englisch
Oscar Wilde war irischer Schriftsteller. Zitate auf Englisch.“For one moment our lives met, our souls touched.”
Variante: For one moment our lives met our souls touched.
Oscar Wilde buch Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen
The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
“When you really want love you will find it waiting for you.”
Oscar Wilde buch De Profundis
Quelle: De Profundis
“Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.”
Oscar Wilde buch The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Quelle: The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.”
Oscar Wilde Ein idealer Gatte
Lord Goring, Act II
Quelle: An Ideal Husband (1895)
The Critic as Artist (1891), Part I
Kontext: There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
Kontext: Puritans cannot destroy a beautiful thing, yet, by means of their extraordinary prurience, they can almost taint beauty for a moment. It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
Kontext: It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not.
Oscar Wilde Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung
Quelle: A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Algernon, Act I.
Variante: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s his.
Quelle: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
Oscar Wilde buch Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray
Quelle: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde buch The Nightingale and the Rose
Quelle: The Nightingale and the Rose
Oscar Wilde Ein idealer Gatte
Sir Robert Chiltern, Act II
Quelle: An Ideal Husband (1895)
“We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.”
Oscar Wilde buch Das Gespenst von Canterville
Quelle: The Canterville Ghost http://www.oscarwildecollection.com/savile/canterville.c1.html (1887). For history and analysis of the quote see Common Language http://oscarwildeinamerica.org/quotations/common-language.html.