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

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

You will bitterly reproach him in your own heart, and seriously think that he has behaved very badly to you. The next time he calls, you will be perfectly cold and indifferent. It will be a great pity, for it will alter you. ♥ ⌚

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures.

There is no doubt that Genius lasts longer than Beauty.

My heart shall never be put under their microscope. ♥ 🔬

The world becomes young to me when I hold his hand. 🌍 ✋ (manuscript)

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

He, too, felt that we were destined to know each other.

Perhaps it was not so reckless, after all. It was simply inevitable.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

I had a strange feeling that Fate had in store for me exquisite joys and exquisite sorrows.

I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.

You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages. ⌚

I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible.

Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that i have not been able to see the people, which was worse.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. 🎨

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.