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Yet ruled he not long, so great had been his suffering, and so bitter the fire of his testing, for after the space of three years he died. And he who ...more

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Poor Aubrey: I hope he will get all right. He brought a strangely new personality to English art, and was a master in his way of fantastic grace, and ...more

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Cold were the lips, yet he kissed them. Salt was the honey of the hair, yet he tasted it with a bitter joy. He kissed the closed eyelids, and the wild...more

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Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.

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Lady Bracknell, I hate to seem inquisitive, but would you kindly inform me who I am?

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JACKYou're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax.GWENDOLENOh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for developments, and I intend to develop in many dir...more

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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, on...more

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How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.""Well, ...more

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The very essence of romance is uncertainty.

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Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mour...more

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I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

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He would never again tempt innocence. He would be good.

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As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

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The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

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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 ...more