What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share
