Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891 quotes
"I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
Take this quote mobile"Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
"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."
"A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
"One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing."
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."
"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."