Quote #116

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

More from Oscar Wilde

  1. In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
  2. Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
  3. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
  4. I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are…
  5. My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
  6. What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
  7. Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
  8. Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

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