Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval.
Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.
Nobody is worthy to be loved. The fact that God loves man shows us that in the divine order of ideal things it is written that eternal love is to be given to what is eternally unworthy. Or if that phr...
It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.
I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor...
I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
Do you smoke? Jack. Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. Lady Bracknell. I am glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind. There are far too many idle men in London as it is.
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to...
As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word too.
Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood
Within this restless, hurried, modern worldWe took our hearts' full pleasure - You and I,And now the white sails of our ship are furled,And spent the lading of our argosy.Wherefore my cheeks before th...
The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine.
And how delightful other people's emotions were!-much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him. One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends-those were the fascinating things in life.
The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.
The curves of your lips rewrite history.