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@O_L1RU1, member from March 5, 2023“I can resist everything except temptation.”
Lord Darlington, Act I
Variant: I can resist everything except temptation
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.”
“Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.”
Mr. Dumby, Act III.
Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
Variant: Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
Variant: Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Context: Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. [First used by Wilde in Vera; or, The Nihilists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera;_or,_The_Nihilists. ]
“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
“Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood.”
Source: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Variant: A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.
Source: The Critic as Artist (1891), Part II
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”
Source: The Happy Prince and Other Stories
This quote was instead first mentioned in a 1931 book titled “Since Calvary: An Interpretation of Christian History” by the comparative religion specialist Lewis Browne.
Disputed
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
“Everything is going to be fine in the end.
If it's not fine it's not the end.”