Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.
Jack: Gwendolen, wait here for me.Gwendolen: If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
It takes great deal of courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it.
In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.
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...
Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone.
If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
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 don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much
I can resist anything except temptation.
I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.
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...
I am completely penniless, and absolutely homeless. Yet there are worse things in the world than that.
How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil?A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!
He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.
He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage.
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.