Цитаты из книги Portretul lui Dorian Gray

Литературная критика вовсе не твое призвание, дружище. Не становись на этот путь. Предоставь это тем, кто не обучался в университете.

When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.

A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.

I don’t think I am likely to marry. I am too much in love.

To get back one’s youth, one has merely to repeat one’s follies.

If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end.

Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.

Women spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

The bravest man amongst us is afraid of himself.

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.

Есть ли что абсолютно верное на свете?

Самые нелепые поступки человек всегда совершает из благороднейших побуждений.

Мужчины женятся от усталости, женщины выходят замуж из любопытства. И тем и другим брак приносит разочарование.

У Вас нет права на уныние.

...a man who is much talked about is always very attractive.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.