"A kiss may ruin a human life"

"You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid"

"It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love"

"Hearts Live By Being Wounded"

"I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact."

"Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring."

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

"One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry."

"Yet each man kills the thing he lovesBy each let this be heardSome do it with a bitter lookSome with a flattering wordThe coward does it with a kissThe brave man with a sword"

"Who, being loved, is poor?"

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

"The heart was made to be broken."

"Never love anyone who treats you like you're ordinary."

"Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it."

"Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read."

"Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."

"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want."

"The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life."

"In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."

"It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."

"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."