Quotes About Wisdom

All good looks are a snare. They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in.

The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.

do not accept a sacrifice so great.  If you do, you will live to repent it bitterly

The less said about life's sores the better.

Wenn ein Mann alt genug ist, um unrecht zu tun, so sollte er alt genug sein, um recht zu tun.

You cut life to pieces with your epigrams.

Nichts Interessantes ist jemals richtig.

that is one of the great secrets of life. 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.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Miss Prim says that all good looks are a snare.' 'They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in.' 'Oh, I don't think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.

Cecily: Oh, yes. Dr. Chasuble is a most learned man. He has never written a single book, so you can imagine how much he knows.

What you read when you don't have to will determine what you will be when you can't help it.

The supreme vice is shallowness. Whatever is realised is right.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Puede recordar usted algún gran error que haya cometido en su juventud, duquesa? -preguntó mirándola- Me temo que de una gran cantidad de ellos -exclamó ella. Entonces cométalos otra vez -dijo él gravemente-. Volver a la juventud es solamente repetir sus locuras.

La tragedia de la vejez no consiste en ser viejo, sino en haber sido joven.

But women who have common sense are so curiously plain, father, aren't they? Of course I only speak from hearsay. No woman, plain or pretty, has any common sense at all, sir. Common sense is the privilege of our sex. Quite so. And we men are so self-sacrificing that we never use it, do we, father?

I ask merely for information.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating -- people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing. 

Like all poetical natures he [Christ] loved ignorant people. He knew that in the soul of one who is ignorant there is always room for a great idea. But he could not stand stupid people, especially those who are made stupid by education: people who are full of opinions not one of which they even understand...

Because now you are young and beautiful and the whole world loves you. But, some day, you will be old and wrinkled and no-one will give you a second glance. It is a sad fact, but when youth goes, beauty goes with it. If you want my advice, go out and live. Live each day to the full and enjoy all of life's pleasures.

Don't lose your temper; you have only got one.

The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.