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The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of Science is that it is not emotional.”
“Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.”
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
les grandpères ont toujours tort.”
Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.”
When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.”
There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating — people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.
“the only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.
I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions — that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.”
“Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. That is all that can be said
for them. They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where t...
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The one charm of the past is that it is the past.
Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. Conscience makes egotists of us all. Yes;
It is simply expression, as Harry says, that gives reality to things.
ennui,
la consolation des arts?
“Clericalis Disciplina”
“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”
As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.
Art had a soul, but that man had not.
The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought, and sold, and bartered away. It can be poisoned, or made perfect. There is a soul in each one of us. I know it.”
