Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.
Jack: Actually, I was found. Lady Bracknell: Found? Jack: Uh, yes, I was in... a handbag. Lady Bracknell: A handbag? Jack: Yes, it was... [makes gestures] Jack: an ordinary handbag.
It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable.
I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules.
I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.
I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
I believe I am to have enough to live on for about eighteen months at anyrate, so that if I may not write beautiful books, I may at least read beautifulbooks; and what joy can be greater?
Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasur...
He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both.
For he who lives more lives than oneMore deaths than one must die.
Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the ni...
Dear little Swallow,’ said the Prince, ‘you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.
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,...
But what world says that [I'm wicked]? It can only be the next world. This world and I are on excellent terms.
As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
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 with tears of blood he cleansed the hand,The hand that held the steel:
And all the woe that moved him soThat he gave that bitter crythe wild regrets, and the bloody sweatsNone knew so well as I:
Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored.