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Lady Windermeres Fächer

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)

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, 3. Akt / Lord Darlington
Original engl.: "[A cynic is] a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

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 / 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, 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, 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)

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 3. Akt / Cecil Graham
Original engl.: "Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)

Lady Windermeres Fächer, 3. Akt / Cecil Graham
Original engl.: "My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's."
Anspielung auf die gängige Aufforderung "Mind your own business!" ("Kümmere dich um deine Angelegenheiten!")
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)