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Lady Windermeres Fächer

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 2. Akt / Lord Darlington
Original engl.: "Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 1. Akt / Herzogin von Berwick
Original engl.: "Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 1. Akt, Lord Darlington
Original engl.: "It's a curious thing about the game of marriage - a game, by the way, that is going out of fashion - the wives hold all the honours, and invariably lose the odd trick."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

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

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 2. Akt / Cecil Graham
Original engl.: "My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 4. Akt / Lady Windermere
Original engl.: "And what a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us!"
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 1. Akt, Lord Darlington
Original engl.: "Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it."
meist zitiert als "Das Leben ist viel zu wichtig, um es ernst zu nehmen" ("Life is far too important to be taken seriously."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

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, 4. Akt / Lady Windermere
Original engl.: "I don't think now that people can be divided into the good and the bad as though they were two separate races or creations."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 3. Akt / Mr. Dumby
Original engl.: "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. The last is much the worst; the last is a real tragedy!"
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

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)

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 1. Akt / Lord Darlington
Original engl.: "People are either charming or tedious. I take the side of the charming."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 1. Akt / Lord Darlington
Original engl.: "Anything is better than being sacrificed."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 3. Akt, Mr. Dumby
Original engl.: "The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 1. Akt, Herzogin von Berwick
Original engl.: "Men become old, but they never become good."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 3. Akt / Cecil Graham
Original engl.: "I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 4. Akt, Mrs. Erlynne
Original engl.: "Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 2. Akt / Mrs. Erlynne
Original engl.: "In modern life margin is everything."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 1. Akt / Lord Windermere
Original engl.: "None of us men may be good enough for the women we marry."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)