Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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Oscar WildeA Woman of No Importance (1893), Act III
About Oscar Wilde
Irish playwright and wit, author of The Importance of Being Earnest. (1854-1900)
More from Oscar Wilde
- To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
- Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act III
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act III
- I can resist everything except temptation.Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), Act I
- There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), ch. 1
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple.The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), Act I
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- Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.Leo Tolstoy
- One withstands the invasion of armies; one does not withstand the invasion of ideas.Victor Hugo
- In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.Robert Frost
- We turn not older with years, but newer every day.Emily Dickinson
- Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.George Bernard Shaw
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.George Bernard Shaw
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