– Lord Darlington, in Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan.
Some other great lines from the same play:
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
[What it a cynic?] A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
– Lord Darlington, in Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan.
Some other great lines from the same play:
Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.
My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
[What it a cynic?] A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.