"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face."
"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."
"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
"Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot."
"What of art? - It is a malady; Love? - An illusion; Religion - The fashionable substitute for Belief."
"To define is to limit."
"A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her."
"When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife."
"Women love with their ears, men love with their eyes."
"Peace gives life."
"Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that."
"The basis of every scandal is an immoral certainty."
"Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one."
"All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime."
"If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart."
"The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of Faith and the lesson of Romance."
"But a chance tone of colour in a room or in a morning sky, a particular perfume that you have once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you have come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play - I tell you, Dorian, that it is on things like these that our lives depend."
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