Quotes About Experience

La ventaja de jugar con fuego, lady Caroline, es que no nos quemamos. Sólo se quema la gente que no sabe jugar con él.

She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness. It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious. Her feet are very pretty, but they are not feet of clay. White porcelain feet, if you like. They have been through the fire, and what fire does not destroy, it hardens. She has had experiences.

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices." "The

And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy.

Even when one has been wounded by it, Harry? asked the duchess after a pause. Especially when one has been wounded by it, answered Lord Henry.

That awful thing, a woman's memory!

To tell is to live through it all again. Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless.

Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

Better to take pleasure in a rose than to put its root under a microscope.

What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.

I suffered immensely. Then it passed away. I cannot repeat an emotion. No one can, except sentimentalists.

The tragedy of old age is not that one is old but that one is young.

My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

Every experience is of value.

The people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people.

The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder.

Realize your youth while you have it. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Si yo hubiera leído todo esto en un libro, Henry, creo que me hubiera echado a llorar. Sin embargo, ahora que me ha ocurrido a mi realmente, parece demasiado asombroso para derramar lágrimas.

The one charm of the past is that it is in the past.

But then the only things that one can use in fiction are the things that one has ceased to use in fact.

I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience. I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine.

To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.

Ruhun ac?s?n? ancak duyular al?r, nas?l ki duyular?n ac?s?n? alabilecek tek ?ey de ruhtur.

Existen venenos tan sutiles que para conocer sus propiedades hay que probarlos. Existen enfermedades tan extrañas que uno tiene que sufrirlas para comprender su esencia