Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, Kapitel 16
Original engl.: "One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault."
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Feder, Pinsel und Gift
Original engl.: "A mask tells us more than a face."
Feder, Pinsel und Gift - Pen, Pencil And Poison (1889)

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Der Kritiker als Künstler, Szene 2 / Gilbert
Original engl.: "Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
Der Kritiker als Künstler - The Critic As Artist

Die bedeutende Rakete / die Rakete
Original engl.: "I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
Die bedeutende Rakete - The Remarkable Rocket

Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen, 1. Akt
Original engl.: "The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
Lord Arthur Saviles Verbrechen - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 3. Akt / Mr. Dumby
Original engl.: "Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Variante: Erfahrung ist der Name, den wir unseren Fehlern geben.

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 1. Akt / Lord Darlington
Original engl.: "I can resist everything except temptation."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Sätze und Lehren zum Gebrauch für die Jugend
Original engl.: "In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer."
Sätze und Lehren zum Gebrauch für die Jugend - Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, Kapitel 2 / Lord Henry; Ratschlag an Dorian Gray
Original engl.: "That is one of the great secrets of life – to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul."
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, Kapitel 2 / Lord Henry
Original engl.: "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray - The Picture of Dorian Gray

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, Kapitel 5
Original engl.: "Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them."
Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Variante: Anfangs lieben Kinder ihre Eltern; wenn sie älter werden, halten sie Gericht über sie; selten, wenn überhaupt, verzeihen sie ihnen.

Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung, 1. Akt / Lord Illingworth, Mrs. Allonby
Original engl.: "The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy."
Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung - A Woman of No Importance

Der Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen
Original engl.: "In old days men had the rack. Now they have the press. That is an improvement certainly."
Die Seele des Menschen im Sozialismus - The Soul of Man Under Socialism

Der Kritiker als Künstler, Szene 2 / Gilbert
Original engl.: "To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual."
Der Kritiker als Künstler - The Critic As Artist

Ein idealer Gatte, 1. Akt / Mrs. Cheveley
Original engl.: " Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are."
Ein idealer Gatte - An Ideal Husband