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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, 11 Monate, 25 Tage oder 62.087 Tage alt.

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

• There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else. That is the misery of being poor.

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• 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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