There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.
Children begin by loving their parents after a time they judge them rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.
LADY BRACKNELLAlgernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?
For his mourners will be outcast menAnd outcasts always mourn...
What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen...
What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will...
Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and w...
People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.
It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Never mind what I say. I am always saying what I shouldn't say. In fact, I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.
I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope.
I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
You will always love, and you will always be loved
If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.
Ordinary riches can be stolen real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
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