- “True friends stab you in the front.”
- "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
- "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
- "How could you ever love someone who would treat you like an ordinary human being?"
- "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
- "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
- "The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
- "In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
- "Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal."
- Personal Impressions of America
- "There is no sin except stupidity."
- "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."
- "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."
- "The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- "Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."
- "Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
- "There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."
- "Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- "Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
- "Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
- "Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
- "Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."
- "Wisdom comes with winters."
- "Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer."
- "I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
- "Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
- "There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- "I don't recognize you - I've changed a lot."
- "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
- "I can resist everything but temptation."
- "America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."
- "Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."
- "Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."
- "If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out."
- "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- "Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
- "Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon."
nov 11 2009 ∞
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