Quote #131
Only the shallow know themselves.
More from Oscar Wilde
- If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
- In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
- Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
- The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
- Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
- To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
- Those whom the gods love grow young.
- Mrs. Allonby: They say, Lady Hunstanton, that when good Americans die they go to Paris. Lady Hunstanton: Indeed? And when bad Americans die…