Dorian Gray listened, open-eyed and wondering. The spray of lilac fell from his hand upon the gravel. A furry bee came and buzzed round it for a moment. Then it began to scramble all over the oval stellated globe of the tiny blossoms. He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression, or when some though that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield.
Oscar WildeAh! I have talked quite enough for today," said Lord Henry, smiling. "All I want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.
Oscar WildeLike all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners.
Oscar WildeShe was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions.
Oscar WildeThe worst vice of a fanatic is his sincerity.
Oscar WildeSincerity is the last refuge of the shallow.
Oscar WildeCecily: “Miss Prism says that all good looks are a snare”
Algernon: “They are a snare that every sensible man would like to be caught in.”
Cecily: “Oh, I don’t think I would care to catch a sensible man. I shouldn’t know what to talk to him about.
Jack: “Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?”
Gwendolen: “I can. For I feel that you are sure to change.
Lady Bracknell: “He was eccentric, I admit. But only in later years. And that was the result of the Indian climate, and marriage, and indigestion, and other things of that kind.
Oscar WildeJack: [Slowly and hesitatingly] “Gwendolen–Cecily–it is very painful for me to be forced to speak the truth. It is the first time in my life that I have ever been reduced to such a painful position, and I am really quite inexperienced in doing anything of the kind.
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