Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
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Oscar WildeLady Windermere's Fan (1892), 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)
- 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
- To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891)
More quotes on learning and wisdom
- If you know others and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles.Sun Tzu
- God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites, so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.Rumi
- Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.Rumi
- Every artist was first an amateur.Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.Voltaire
- Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.Voltaire
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