Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.
Though your sins be as scarlet, yet I will make them as white as snow.
But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself.
Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.
He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
Rugged and c as he was, there was something in his nature that was purely feminine in its tenderness.
One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders.
The separation of spirit from matter was a mystery and the union of spirit with matter was a mystery also.
Why is it that I can't feel this tragedy as much as I want to?
His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
Love is a more wonderful thing than art. They are both simply forms of imitation,' remarked Lord Henry.
These days man knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Describe us as a sex," was her challenge. Sphinxes without secrets.
My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget.
Dorian is far too wise not to do foolish things now and then.
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
He was like a common gardener walking with a rose.
Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
Threads snap. You would lose your way in the labyrinth.
There seemed to him to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.
I have no terror of death. It is the coming of death that terrifies me. Its monstrous wings seem to wheel in the leaden air around me.
He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is the reason that I don't believe anything he has told me.