Neither at things, nor at people should one look. Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks.
Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
She has form, he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, wit...
Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.
The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calcu...
The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.
The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless.
The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.
There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's...
There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.
Time is a waste of money.
We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul.
When a golden girl can winPrayer from out the lips of sin,When the barren almond bears,And a little child gives away its tears,Then shall all the house be stillAnd peace come to Canterville.
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream.
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