Quote #117

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

More from Oscar Wilde

  1. What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
  2. 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…
  3. In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
  4. What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
  5. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
  6. Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
  7. My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
  8. The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

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