Posted by: Donato Potenza
Lord Henry: All i want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
Lord Henry: All i want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care.
To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.
I thought I had a heart, but it not right for me. Somehow, it doesn't adapt to modern costumes.
Art is a symbol, because man is a symbol.
It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of this world, whatever may be the explanation of the next.
Women are a decorative sex -- they have nothing to say, but they say it charmingly.
Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.
Any place you love is the world to you, but love is not fashionable any more, the poets have killed it. They wrote so much about that nobody believed them, and I am not surprised. True love suffers, and is silent.
All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.
Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.