In America, the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the full benefit of their inexperience — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Some one has killed herself for love of you. I wish that I had ever had such an experience.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Besides, every experience is of value, and whatever one may say against marriage, it is certainly an experience.” — 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
“it was never to accept any theory or system that would involve the sacrifice of any mode of passionate experience. Its aim,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“experience. There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating--people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into… — 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 Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
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 Image
