Oscar Wilde Zitate – Sprüche auf Englisch mit Übersetzung

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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

Oscar Wilde

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

Oscar Wilde

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Oscar Wilde

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

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A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

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Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

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A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

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There is no sin except stupidity.

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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

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One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

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I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

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In married life three is company and two none.

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes.

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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

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It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

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No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

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Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

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There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

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Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

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It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

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Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

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Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

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Hatred is blind, as well as love.

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Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

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It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

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Women are made to be loved, not understood.

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