Men know life too early women know life too late.
Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happiness.
Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority.
The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.
. . . try as we may we cannot get behind things to the reality. And the terrible reason may be that there is no reality in things apart from their appearances.
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.
All I want now is to look at life.
Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread.
Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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 salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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...
You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have be...
You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intelle...
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
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.