Its a beautiful woman's fate to be the subject of conversation where ever she goes
It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us.
It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in suchan inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, theirabsolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack...
It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emoti...
It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things.
Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.
If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.
If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.
I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then...
I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.
I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says.
I hope you hair curls naturally, does it?Yes, darling, with a little help from others.
I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do.
I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me
I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.
I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you...