Quotes from Oscar Wilde
Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing.
- Oscar Wilde
A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
- Oscar Wilde
Thinking is wonderful, but the experience is even more wonderful.
- Oscar Wilde
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
- Oscar Wilde
The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
It is what we fear that happens to us.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
- Oscar Wilde
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
- Oscar Wilde
A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde