Oscar Wilde: Aktuelle Zitate

Ein idealer Gatte, 1. Akt / Mrs. Cheveley
Original engl.: "Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are."
Ein idealer Gatte - An Ideal Husband

Ein idealer Gatte, 1. Akt / Lord Goring
Original engl.: "I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it."
Ein idealer Gatte - An Ideal Husband

Ein idealer Gatte, 4. Akt / Lord Goring
Original engl.: "I don't like principles […]. I prefer prejudices."
Ein idealer Gatte - An Ideal Husband

Ein idealer Gatte, 1. Akt / Sir Robert Chiltern
Original engl.: "Sooner or later in political life one has to compromise."
Ein idealer Gatte - An Ideal Husband

Ein idealer Gatte, 2. Akt / Sir Robert Chiltern
Original engl.: "Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons."
Ein idealer Gatte - An Ideal Husband

'Ein idealer Gatte, 3. Akt / Mrs. Cheveley
Original engl.: "If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilised."
Ein idealer Gatte - An Ideal Husband

Ein idealer Gatte, 1. Akt / Mrs. Cheveley
Original engl.: "One should always play fairly […] when one has the winning cards."
Ein idealer Gatte - An Ideal Husband

Ein idealer Gatte, 1. Akt / Mrs. Cheveley
Original engl.: "Men can be analysed, women ... merely adored."
Ein idealer Gatte - An Ideal Husband

Ein idealer Gatte, 2. Akt / Mrs. Cheveley
Original engl.: "Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike."
Ein idealer Gatte - An Ideal Husband

Ein idealer Gatte, 1. Akt / Mrs. Cheveley
Original engl.: "Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."
Ein idealer Gatte - An Ideal Husband

Ein idealer Gatte, 3. Akt / Lord Goring
Original engl.: "Self-sacrifice is a thing that should be put down by law. It is so demoralising to the people for whom one sacrifices oneself."
Ein idealer Gatte - An Ideal Husband

Ein idealer Gatte, 1. Akt / Lady Chiltern
Original engl.: "Circumstances should never alter principles!"
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Ein idealer Gatte, 4. Akt / Lord Goring
Original engl.: "Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life."
Anspielung auf das Wort "Kinder soll man sehen, nicht hören" ("Children should be seen, not heard.")
Ein idealer Gatte - An Ideal Husband

Feder, Pinsel und Gift
Original engl.: "All beautiful things belong to the same age."
Feder, Pinsel und Gift - Pen, Pencil And Poison (1889)

Feder, Pinsel und Gift; über Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
Original engl.: "This young dandy sought to be somebody, rather than to do something. He recognised that Life itself is in art."
Feder, Pinsel und Gift - Pen, Pencil And Poison (1889)

Feder, Pinsel und Gift, über den Giftmörder Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
Original engl.: "But had the man worn a costume and spoken a language different from our own […] we would be quite able to arrive at a perfectly unprejudiced estimate of his position and value."
Feder, Pinsel und Gift - Pen, Pencil And Poison (1889)

Feder, Pinsel und Gift
Original engl.: "To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance."
Feder, Pinsel und Gift - Pen, Pencil And Poison (1889)

Kunst und Moral
Kunst und Moral

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 1. Akt / Lord Darlington
Original engl.: "Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)