перечитала "Портрет Дориана Грея"
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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral--immoral from the scientific point of view.
Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.
People say sometimes that beauty is only superficial. That may be so, but at least it is not so superficial as thought is.
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.
"I adore simple pleasures," said Lord Henry. "They are the last refuge of the complex."
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.
His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices.
"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
He began to wonder whether we could ever make psychology so absolute a science that each little spring of life would be revealed to us. As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others.
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.
Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part.
They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.
anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often
The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.