Oscar Wilde: Aktuelle Zitate (seite 11)

Ernst muß man sein, 2. Akt / Miss Prism
Original engl.: "Memory […] is the diary that we all carry about with us."
Bunbury oder Ernst muß man sein - Bunbury or The Importance of Being Earnest

Ernst muß man sein, 1. Akt / Algernon
Original engl.: "The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
Bunbury oder Ernst muß man sein - Bunbury or The Importance of Being Earnest

Ernst muß man sein, 1. Akt / Algernon
Original engl.: "The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to some one else, if she is plain."
Bunbury oder Ernst muß man sein - Bunbury or The Importance of Being Earnest

Ernst muß man sein, 2. Akt / Cecily
Original engl.: "It is always painful to part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable."
Bunbury oder Ernst muß man sein - Bunbury or The Importance of Being Earnest

Ernst muß man sein, 1. Akt / Gwendolen
Original engl.: "Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else."
Bunbury oder Ernst muß man sein - Bunbury or The Importance of Being Earnest

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, Kapitel 2 / Lord Henry
Original engl.: "The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, Kapitel 8 / Lord Henry (Übersetzung Richard Zoozmann /gutenberg.spiegel.de http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/buch/1834/10)
Original engl.: "Good resolutions [...] are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account."
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Das Bildnis des Mr. W. H., Kap. 1 / Erskine
Original engl.: "A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
Das Bildnis des Mr. W. H. - The Portrait of Mr. W. H.

Das Gespenst von Canterville, Kap. 5 / Miss Virginia E. Otis
Original engl.: "It is very difficult sometimes to keep awake, especially at church."
Das Gespenst von Canterville - The Canterville Ghost

Das Gespenst von Canterville, Kap. 1; ähnliches wird oft George Bernard Shaw zugeschrieben
Original engl.: "We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language."
Das Gespenst von Canterville - The Canterville Ghost

De Profundis
Original engl.: "The supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realised is right."
De Profundis - Epistola: In Carcere Et Vinculis

De Profundis
Original engl.: "The basis of character is will power."
De Profundis - Epistola: In Carcere Et Vinculis

De Profundis
Original engl.: "The gods are strange, and punish us for what is good and humane in us as much as for what is evil and perverse."
De Profundis - Epistola: In Carcere Et Vinculis

De Profundis
Original engl.: "But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes. It is well to have learned that."
De Profundis - Epistola: In Carcere Et Vinculis

De Profundis
Original engl.: "Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is."
De Profundis - Epistola: In Carcere Et Vinculis

Der Kritiker als Künstler, Szene 1 / Gilbert
Original engl.: "Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable."
Der Kritiker als Künstler - The Critic As Artist

Der Kritiker als Künstler, Szene 1 / Gilbert
Original engl.: "The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
Der Kritiker als Künstler - The Critic As Artist

Der Kritiker als Künstler, Szene 1 / Ernest
Original engl.: "The English public always feels perfectly at its ease when a mediocrity is talking to it."
Der Kritiker als Künstler - The Critic As Artist