Oscar Wilde Zitate auf Englisch

Zitat des Tages über Oscar Wilde:

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference. David Mamet

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

Anton Chekhov

Nothing succeeds like success.

Alexandre Dumas

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Friedrich Schiller

The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.

Georg Buchner

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

George Bernard Shaw

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Tennessee Williams

A fiance is neither this nor that: he's left one shore, but not yet reached the other.

Anton Chekhov

I don't really have a social life.

David Mamet

Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.

Lillian Hellman

That is a long word: forever!

Georg Buchner

In memory everything seems to happen to music.

Tennessee Williams

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

Wilson Mizner

No man may make another free.

Zora Neale Hurston

The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.

Georg Buchner

Knowing is the most profound kind of love, giving someone the gift of knowledge about yourself.

Marsha Norman

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Maurice Maeterlinck

Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

George Bernard Shaw

My horizon on humanity is enlarged by reading the writers of poems, seeing a painting, listening to some music, some opera, which has nothing at all to do with a volatile human condition or struggle or whatever. It enriches me as a human being.

Wole Soyinka

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Eugene Ionesco

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

Vittorio Alfieri

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

Wilson Mizner

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

Georges Courteline

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

George Bernard Shaw

The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.

David Mamet

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

George Bernard Shaw

Peace is produced by war.

Pierre Corneille

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

George Bernard Shaw

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Friedrich Schiller

It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

Zora Neale Hurston

We are always on stage, even when we are stabbed in earnest at the end.

Georg Buchner

You know, that's the only good thing about divorce; you get to sleep with your mother.

Clare Boothe Luce

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

George Bernard Shaw

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

George Bernard Shaw

The most efficient water power in the world - women's tears.

Wilson Mizner

The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.

Zora Neale Hurston

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

Jean Racine