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by
Oscar Wilde
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies."
Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life."
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."
She has been innocent, and the black hands of jealousy have crushed her reedlike throat.
I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good.
should fancy that the real tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self-denial. Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich."
"Being adored is a nuisance. Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us to do something for them."
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.
remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions – that they are always made too late.
Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all.
It is simply expression, as Harry says, that gives reality to things.
There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realise his conception of the beautiful.
