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 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
Death is a great price to pay for a red rose, cried the Nightingale, and Life is very dear to all. It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and to watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon i...
But don't you think one can be happy when on is married?Perfectly happy. But the happiness of a married man, my dear Gerald, depends on the people he has not married.But if one is in love?One should a...
Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life but his prejudices his principles and his common sense. The only artists I...
And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn.
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.
The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated.
What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless.
What is done is done. What is past is past.You call yesterday the past?What has the actual lapse of time got to do with it? It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man...
The error all women commit. Why can’t you women love us, faultsand all? Why do you place us on monstrous pedestals? We have all feet ofclay, women as well as men; but when we men love women, we love t...
Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams. You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone o...
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving yo...
Oh I can't explain. When I like people immensely I never tell their names to any one. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make m...