Quote

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Oscar Wilde

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Oscar Wilde
Age: 46 †
Born: 1854
Born: October 16
Died: 1900
Died: November 30
Author
Essayist
Journalist
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Playwright
Poet
Prosaist
Short Story Writer
Writer
Dublin city
Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
Experience
Nothing
Thing
Work
Witty
Positive
Funny

More quotes by Oscar Wilde

Image
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
Oscar Wilde
Image
It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose.
Oscar Wilde
Image
They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance
Oscar Wilde
Image
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Art only begins where Imitation ends.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly
Oscar Wilde
Image
A man who pays his bills on time is soon forgotten.
Oscar Wilde
Image
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Hatred is blind, as well as love.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
Image
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar Wilde
Image
The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Fashion: by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.
Oscar Wilde
Image
Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
Oscar Wilde