Oscar Wilde

Irish poet and playwright

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Irish poet and playwright

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
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.