Posted by: Elisabetta
Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
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- Author:
- Oscar Wilde
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Posted by: Marianna Mansueto
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
Posted by: July 37
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Then I feel that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
Posted by: July 37
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The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
Posted by: July 37
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When I like someone a lot I never say their name to anyone: it would be like giving part of them away. I've learnt to love the secret: it seems to me like the only thing that can make misterious - or marvellous - modern life.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
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
Posted by: Mela Favale
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
But the bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself. The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives. We are punished for our refusals. Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us. The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. (from "The Picture of Dorian Gray")
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
Posted by: Andrea Manfrč
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde
It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of
himself, can end sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, enjoy them and dominate them.
from the book "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde