Oscar Wilde: Aktuelle Zitate

Ein idealer Gatte, 2. Akt / Mabel Chiltern
Original engl.: "Musical people are so absurdly unreasonable. They always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be absolutely deaf."
Ein idealer Gatte - An Ideal Husband

Die Herzogin von Padua, 5. Akt / Die Herzogin
Original engl.: "We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
Die Herzogin von Padua - The Duchess of Padua

Ernst muß man sein, 3. Akt / Lady Bracknell
Original engl.: "To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable."
Bunbury oder Ernst muß man sein - Bunbury or The Importance of Being Earnest

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung, 3. Akt / Lord Illingworth
Original engl.: "There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life."
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung - A Woman of No Importance

Der Geburtstag der Infantin / Die Eidechsen
Original engl.: "He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him."
Ein Granatapfelhaus - The House of Pomegranates

Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen
Original engl.: "The less punishment, the less crime."
Die Seele des Menschen im Sozialismus - The Soul of Man Under Socialism