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Informationen über Oscar Wilde
Dramatiker, Erzähler, Lyriker, gilt als führender Vertreter des "lart pour art - Kunst um der Kunst willen", "Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray", "Ein idealer Gatte", "Das Gespenst von Canterville", "Eine Frau ohne Bedeutung" (Irland, 1854 - 1900).
Oscar Wilde · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Oscar Wilde wäre heute 169 Jahre, 11 Monate, 5 Tage oder 62.067 Tage alt.
Geboren am 16.10.1854 in Dublin
Gestorben am 30.11.1900 in Paris
Sternzeichen: ♎ Waage
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Weitere 1.173 Zitate von Oscar Wilde
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I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
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I like men who have a future and women who have a past.
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I like Wagner's music better than any other music. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says. That is a great advantage.
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I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.
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I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
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I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.
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If one could only teach the English how to talk and the Irish how to listen, society would be quite civilized.
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If there is anything in the world more annoying than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no-one talk about you.
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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 outstanding stupidity of optimism.
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Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately, in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.
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Imagination compensates a man for what he is not; humor comforts him for what he is.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience.
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In love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always ends by deceiving others; and that is what the world calls a romance.
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In married life three is company and two none.
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In matters of great importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing.
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kind.
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In old days, men had the rack. Now they have the press.
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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.
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Industry is the root of all ugliness.
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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.