Each man kills the thing he loves.
Down the long and silent street,
Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose,...
Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.
Circumstances should never alter principles!
But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thi...
Be happy, cried the Nightingale, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you...
And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
And all the woe that moved him soThat he gave that bitter crythe wild regrets, and the bloody sweatsNone knew so well as I:
Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its...
A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it.
A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother sn...
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Friendship...is not something you learn in school,but if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship you really haven't learned anything.
In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.