Lady Windermeres Fächer ist eine Gesellschaftskomödie in vier Akten des irischen Schriftstellers Oscar Wilde.
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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."
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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."
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Lady Windermeres Fächer, 2. Akt / Mrs. Erlynne
Original engl.: "In modern life margin is everything."
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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."
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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."
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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."
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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!")
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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."
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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."
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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."
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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."
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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!"
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Lady Windermeres Fächer, 1. Akt / Lord Darlington
Original engl.: "I can resist everything except temptation."
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Lady Windermeres Fächer, 1. Akt / Lord Darlington
Original engl.: "We all have our little vanities."
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Lady Windermeres Fächer, 2. Akt / Mrs. Erlynne
Original engl.: "When men give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming."
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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."
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Lady Windermeres Fächer, 1. Akt, Lord Windermere
Original engl.: "Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah! - there is the sting of life."
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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."
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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."
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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."
