And after the second year was over, the Soul said to the young Fisherman at night-time, and as he sat in the wattled house alone, "Lo! now I have tempted thee with evil, and I have tempted thee with g...
The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, i...
I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Success is a science if you have the conditions, you get the result.
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
You are Beautiful when you are happy
Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable.
Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain. Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were...
Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it.
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common peopl...
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.
Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable
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...