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Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
Conscience makes egotists of us all.
Source: Lord Henry, in The Picture of Dorian...
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.
The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for...
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them...
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
Source: Lord...
Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman.
Source: Lord...
One should never make one's debut with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old...
A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can...
When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what...
It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude...
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is...
She tried to found a salon, and only succeeded in opening a restaurant.
Source:...
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But. . . it is better to be good than to be...
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
Source: Lord Henry,...
Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate...
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Source: Lord...
It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never...
His work was that curious mixture of bad painting and good intentions that always entitles a man to be called a...
It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are...