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Dramatiker, Erzähler, Lyriker, gilt als führender Vertreter des "l‘art 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, 6 Monate, 8 Tage oder 61.917 Tage alt.

Geboren am 16.10.1854 in Dublin
Gestorben am 30.11.1900 in Paris
Sternzeichen: ♎ Waage

• There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

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• There is only one thing worse than Injustice, and that is Justice without her sword in her hand. When Right is not Might, it is Evil.

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• Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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• Time is waste of money.

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• To lose one parent, Mr Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

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• To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• To recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.

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• True friends stab you in the front.

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

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• We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

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• We live in an age that reads too much to be wise.

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• When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

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• When a man says he has exhausted life one always knows life has exhausted him.

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• When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

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• When one is in love one begins by deceiving oneself, one ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls romance.

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• When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

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• When the gods choose to punish us, they merely answer our prayers.

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• When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

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• Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing it is always from the noblest motive.

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• Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say one should always be quite candid.

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