It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood.
Either this wallpaper goes, or I do.
The Garden of DeathYes, death. Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the softbrown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, andlisten to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. Toforg...
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
RequiescatTread lightly, she is nearUnder the snow,Speak gently, she can hearThe daisies grow.All her bright golden hairTarnished with rust,She that was young and fairFallen to dust.Lily-like, white a...
When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.
There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
The living always think that gold can make them happy
The long black nights, when the moon hides her face, when the stars are afraid, are not so black. The silence that dwells in the forest is not so black. There is nothing in the world so black as thy h...
The sky was pure opal now.
The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
To be popular one must be a mediocrity.Not with Women, said the duchess, shaking her head; and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our e...
The world seemed to me fine because you were in it, and goodness more real because you lived.
We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes...
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.
In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
What a fuss people make about fidelity! exclaimed Lord Henry. Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are n...
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