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Eine Idee, die nicht gefährlich ist, ist nicht wert, eine Idee genannt zu werden.
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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It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure.
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It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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It is through Art, and through Art only, that we can realise our perfection; through Art, and through Art only, that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence.
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It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces a false impression.
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Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist.
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Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
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Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.
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Lord Illingworth: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. Mrs Allonby It ends with Revelations.
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Lying, a telling of beautiful untrue things, this is the proper aim of art.
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Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit.
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Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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Men always want to be a woman's first love - Women like to be a man's last romance.
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Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious: both are disappointed.
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Meredith is a prose Browning, and so is Browning; he used poetry as a medium for writing in prose.
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Meredith's a prose Browning, and so is Browning.
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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.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.