“By the way, Dorian, he (Lord Henry) said, after a pause, what does it profit a man if he gain the whole… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.' 'You really must not say things like that before Dorian, Harry.' 'Before… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Women are wonderfully practical,' murmured Lord Henry, 'much more practical than we are. In situations of that kind we often forget to… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Lord Henry looked at him. Yes, he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I suppose you have heard the news, Basil?" said Lord Henry that evening as Hallward was shown into a little private room… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Lord Henry looked serious for some moments, 'It is perfectly monstrous,' he said at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Life has everything in store for you, Dorian. There is nothing that you, with your extraordinary good looks, will not be able… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry, languidly.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Lord Henry smiled. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“The wind shook some blossoms from the trees, and the heavy lilac blooms, with their clustering stars, moved to and fro in… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Lord Henry smiled. "He gives you good advice, I suppose. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I adore simple pleasures,” said Lord Henry. “They are the last refuge of the complex. But I don’t like scenes, except on… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Bilmek her şeyin bitimi olur. Cazip olan bilememektir. Sis her şeye müthiş bir güzellik ekler.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What nonsense people talk about happy marriages!" exclaimed Lord Henry. " A man can be happy with any woman, as long as… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I don't think I am heartless. Do you?' 'You have done too many foolish things during the last fortnight to be entitled… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Ah! I have talked quite enough for today," said Lord Henry, smiling. "All I want now is to look at life. You… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“For you I would throw over anybody, Duchess,” said Lord Henry, with a bow.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“How fond women are of doing dangerous things!" laughed Lord Henry. "It is one of the qualities in them that I admire… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Basil my dear boy puts everything that is charming in him into his work. The consequence is that he has nothing left for life… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly we find that we are… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Men always want to be a womans first love. Women have a more subtle instinct: What they like is to be a mans last… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
