Oscar Wilde Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages von Oscar Wilde:

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

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

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A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

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Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

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One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

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There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

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The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

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Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

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A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

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Everything popular is wrong.

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Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

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Why was I born with such contemporaries?

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It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

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When good Americans die they go to Paris.

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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

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I can resist everything except temptation.

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

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Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

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The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

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There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

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No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

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Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

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