We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Quotes from Lady Windermere's Fan — Oscar Wilde
1854–1900
18 quotes
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
A cynic, a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
I can resist everything except temptation.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
I couldn't help it. I can resist everything except temptation.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Oscar Wilde (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.