Quote #175
Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.
More from Oscar Wilde
- Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.
- Usually quoted as: No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
- I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest.
- I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
- Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remaine…
- Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do.
- To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before mar…
- Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.