One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

Quote by Oscar Wilde

Topics: Judgement Quotes, Past Quotes

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

In America, the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the...

In America, the young are always ready to give to those older than themselves the...

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will...

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will...

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,...

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,...

In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.

In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art...

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art...

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other...

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other...

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than...

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than...

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

Scepticism is the beginning of Faith.

True friends stab you in the front.

True friends stab you in the front.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

A man cannot reason with the woman he loves: he cares about her too much.

A man cannot reason with the woman he loves: he cares about her too much.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend...

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend...

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.

Watch the costs and the profits will take care of themselves.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance...

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance...

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.