To be on the alert is to live to be lulled into security is to die.
Men become old but they never become good.
One could never pay too high a price for any sensation.
I am very pleased you like my stories. They are studies in prose, put for Romance's sake into fanciful form: meant partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wo...
It would be unfair to expect other people to be as brilliant as oneself.
The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
You will always love, and you will always be loved
You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]
Time is a waste of money.
There is no Mystery so great as Misery.
The sky was pure opal now.
In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press.
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it w...
Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.And falsehoods the truths of other people.Other people are qu...
And when wind and winter hardenAll the loveless land,It will whisper of the garden,You will understand.
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .