Oscar Wilde Quotes About Human Nature
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.
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The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
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Only the shallow know themselves.
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The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.
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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development. The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same. The result of his error was the French Revolution. It was an admirable result.
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