33 quotes found
“this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night”
“There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.”
“What nonsense people talk about happy marriages!" exclaimed Lord Henry. " A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.”
“Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that”
“He would never again tempt innocence. He would be good.”
“My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammb a Saint Thrse who worships the moon.”
“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 came after him ruled evilly.”
“The pure and simple truth is, the truth is never pure and simple.”
“For his mourners will be outcast menAnd outcasts always mourn...”
“Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.”
“My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammbô a Saint Thérèse who worships the moon.”
“Du Bois sighed theatrically. “It’s as if Oscar Wilde never died for our sins.”
