Oscar Wilde Failure Quotations

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

Misfortunes one can endure -- they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults -- Ah! there is the sting of life.

We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.

We women adore failures. They lean on us.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life