Lady Windermeres Fächer ist eine Gesellschaftskomödie in vier Akten des irischen Schriftstellers Oscar Wilde.
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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)
— Oscar Wilde, 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.
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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)
— Oscar Wilde, 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)
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
Lady Windermeres Fächer, 1. Akt / Lord Darlington
Original engl.: "Anything is better than being sacrificed."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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)
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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)
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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)
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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)
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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)
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
Lady Windermeres Fächer, 1. Akt / Lord Darlington
Original engl.: "I can resist everything except temptation."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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)
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
Lady Windermeres Fächer, 2. Akt / Mrs. Erlynne
Original engl.: "When men give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
Lady Windermeres Fächer, 1. Akt / Lord Darlington
Original engl.: "We all have our little vanities."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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)
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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)
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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)
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
Lady Windermeres Fächer, 3. Akt, Cecil Graham
Original engl.: "Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong."
Lady Windermeres Fächer - Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermeres Fächer
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)
