The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less.
Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle roun...
Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
Questions are never indiscreet. Answers sometimes are.
Nature....she will hang the night stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send word the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me...
Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins.
Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure.
It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs.
It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love. It is when we are wounded by our own hands that love should come to cure us.Else what use is love at all?
It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.
If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
I love acting. It is so much more real than life.
I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.
I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.
He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself.
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography.
Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.
Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, De...
Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar