Oscar Wilde Mistake Quotations

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes

A woman who cannot make her mistakes charming, is only a female.

The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Life would be dull without them.

Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates.

It is a great mistake for men to give up paying compliments, for when they give up saying what is charming, they give up thinking what is charming.

I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.

Murder is always a mistake - one should never do anything one cannot talk about after dinner

Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose.

I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy.