Lord henry Quote by Oscar Wilde Download Open image ““Lord Henry stretched”” — Oscar Wilde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Lord henry
“Henry stirs into life. “Do I retain you for what is easy? Jesus pity my simplicity, I have promoted you to a place in… — Hilary Mantel 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 things against… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Henry. Please." I was on the verge of tears. "What's the matter with you? Have you lost your mind? Don't you understand what's going… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
“[Henry] felt himself bound as much in honour as in affection to Miss Morland, and believing that heart to be his own which he… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Lord Henry elevated his eyebrows and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Huffy Henry hid the day, unappeasable Henry sulked. I see his point,--a trying to put things over. It was the thought that they thought… — John Berryman Copy Share Image
Thou art a very ragged Wart. William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 2 — William Shakespear Copy Share Image
“It is magnificent. At the moment of impact, the king's eyes are open, his body braced for the atteint ; he takes the blow… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I’d never seen him bare-chested. For the first time, he seemed vulnerable to me. His smooth, tight skin wrapped around the long muscles he’d… — Laura Anderson Kurk Copy Share Image
“Oh, the shame that I suffer now . . . the shame of a vanquished King.” And those were the last words of Henry Plantagenet.” — Jean Plaidy Copy Share Image
“Henry had never felt so happy. Freshperson year had been one thing, an adventure, an exhilaration, all in all a success, but it had… — Chad Harbach Copy Share Image
“One thing Henry found especially lacking were my descriptions of death. “They read like a eunuch writing about an orgy” is how he put… — Seth Grahame-Smith 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
“By the way, Dorian, he (Lord Henry) said, after a pause, what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and… — 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 which Dorian?… — 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 say anything… — 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 crisp gold… — 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 at the… — 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 things against… — 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 often 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 other ages,… — 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 to do."… — 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 of generosity.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Really! And where do bad Americans go to when they die?" inquired the duchess. "They go to America," murmured Lord Henry.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
