Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and
discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are
one's mistakes.
-- Oscar Wilde
discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are
one's mistakes.
-- Oscar Wilde
Related:
- Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. " Oscar Wilde
- It is most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his
wife in public.
It always makes people think that he beats her when they are alone. -- Oscar Wilde... - Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde
- I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not
heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the
smallest sense of humanity.
Moral people, as they are termed, are simply beasts.... - To Willie's widow, Lily, and her new husband, Teixeira de Mattos,
Wilde said, "I am dying beyond my means.
I will never outlive the century. The English people would not stand for it.... - It is most dangerous nowadays for a husband to pay any attention to his
wife in public.
It always makes people think that he beats her when they're alone.... - Sound English common sense--the inherited stupidity of the race. -- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
- It is very vulgar to talk about one's own business.
Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties. -- Oscar Wilde...

