Man is many things, but he is not rational.
LADY BRACKNELL. May I ask if it is in this house that your invalid friend Mr. Bunbury resides?ALGERNON. [Stammering.] Oh! No! Bunbury doesn't live here. Bunbury is somewhere else at present. In fact,...
It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
It is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world
In the square below,’ said the Happy Prince, ‘there stands a little match-girl. She has let her matches fall in the gutter, and they are all spoiled. Her father will beat her if she does not bring hom...
If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)
I tremble with pleasure when Ithink that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum andthe lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty th...
I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing.
I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and giv...
He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden.But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstance...
Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.
Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is asacrament that should be taken kneeling.
Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful e...
Each of us has heaven and hell in him, Basil, cried Dorian with a wild gesture of despair.
Disobedience, in the eyes of anyone who has read history, is man’s original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
Art only begins where Imitation ends.
I've put my genius into my life I've only put my talent into my works.
When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.
Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.