Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Charity creates a multitude of sins.