Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Quotes from book
The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite that censorship, The Picture of Dorian Gray offended the moral sensibilities of British book reviewers, some of whom said that Oscar Wilde merited prosecution for violating the laws guarding public morality. In response, Wilde aggressively defended his novel and art in correspondence with the British press, although he personally made excisions of some of the most controversial material when revising and lengthening the story for book publication the following year.
“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. ]
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Obraz Doriana Graye)
“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”
Variant: A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
