(...)the worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. Worlds had to be in travail, that the meanest flower might blow...
(...)I would suggest that we should appeal to Science to put us straight. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of Science is that it is not emotional.
To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.
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.
Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.
To see him is to worship him, to know him is to trust him. (Sybil Vane about Dorian Gray)
'Describe us as a sex,' was her challenge.
'Sphinxes without secrets.'
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