Character Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Character Experience Mistakes Value
“Nothing is worth the loss of one's conscience, or the ability to do what is right.” — Kathleen Morgan Copy Share Image
“Experience isn't any use. And yet, in quite another way, it might be. If only we weren't all such miserable fools and prudes and… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“He was being the scrupulously honorable gentleman, she realized, protecting her name, taking the consequences of his own indiscretion. She understood all that and… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“But what made a man was not the absence of mistakes, but rather, the way he handled them when he made them.” — Max Monroe Copy Share Image
“Men with power had the responsibility to know what was best, and they so rarely did.” — Beck Sherman Copy Share Image
“Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do." Such a notion made it virtually impossible to enjoy life.” — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
“Don't judge me. Ethics and morality no longer exist in our world. It's a luxury of the past, afforded only to those who had… — T.M. Williams Copy Share Image
“More than most men, he valued his name-I only hoped that given time, it would once more have value.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“To begin with, I had never done any good deeds; besides, even if I had simply fabricated a few, I would not have enjoyed… — M. Ageyev Copy Share Image
“I mean this: we were right to agree that good men must be beneficent, and that this could not be otherwise.” — Plato 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
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I'm often moved by the circumstances around some of my characters, but I don't think I've actually cried watching myself. — Kate Winslet Copy Share Image
When you're on a daytime drama you get one page, you better damn well know your character. You better know what she would do… — David Hudgins Copy Share Image
It can sometimes make people fold into themselves and kind of run away, but I think in this case these characters are being forced… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If you are well-mannered towards those whose views are similar to yours, you may be said to exhibit a fairly good character. But, if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Democracy is based on the conviction that man has the moral and intellectual capacity, as well as the inalienable right, to govern himself with… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end. — Semir Zeki Copy Share Image
Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty! — Aaron Chan Copy Share Image
I'm not a huge social media kind of guy, so I don't really know, I don't really ever get... at least in real life,… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image