Lady Windermere's Fan Quotes

“Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless...”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

topic:words action

“If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn’t. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

topic:stupidity

“Experience is the name Tuppy gives to his mistakes.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

topic:experience

“In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

topic:desire satisfaction

“I like talking to a brick wall—it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

topic:talking contradiction

“My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

topic:boredom interest

“we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

topic:stars ambition

“whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

topic:opinion wrong

“a sentimentalist . . . is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

topic:value

“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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