автордың кітабынан сөз тіркестері  The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

I like men who have a future and women who have a past,

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

“All ways end at the same point, my dear Gladys.”

“What is that?”

“Disillusion.”

Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day

But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins.

It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

I like the Duchess very much, but I don't love her.”

“And the Duchess loves you very much, but she likes you less, so you are excellently matched.”

They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.