Портрет Дориана Грея

- Ох, друзья, какие же вы циники!

• Что есть циник?
• Это человек, который всему знает цену и ничего не ценит.
• А сентиментальный романтик, дорогой мой Дарлингтон, это человек, который во всём усматривает какую-то дурацкую ценность и не знает, что почём на рынке.

За свой грех расплачиваешься, а потом надо платить ещё, и ещё, платить всю жизнь.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

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 is the stupid and the ugly who have the best of it in this world.

I am tired of myself tonight. I should like to be somebody else.

Some things are more precious because they don't last long.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit.

— Чепуха! — огрызнулся Волк. — Я же сказал, — во всем виновато Правительство. А если кто мне не верит, я того съем.

Волк был весьма практичен, и никогда за словом в карман не лез.

— Что до меня. — сказал Дятел, а он был прирожденным философом. — то все объяснения излишни. Жизнь такова, какова она есть. А сейчас она ужасно холодна.

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true.

Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful.

Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it.

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

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think now. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Love is a more wonderful thing that art.

To see him if to worship him, to know him is to trust him.