Oscar Wilde
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend’s success.
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