BEAUTIFUL QUOTES FROM THE NOVEL

• There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
• Real beauty ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face.
• When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them.
• The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
• We tell each other the most absurd things with the most serious faces.
• Every portrait painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion.
• As for believing things, I can believe anything provided that it is quite incredible.
• She is peacock in everything but beauty.
• I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.
• There are only two eras of any importance in the world’s history. The first is the appearance of a new medium for art and the second is the appearance of a new personality for art.
• There is no such thing as a good influence. All influence is immoral.
• The highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to oneself.
• They feed the hungry, clothe the beggar, but their souls starve and are naked.
• Terror of god is the secret of religion.
• The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. 
• The only difference between a caprice and a life-time passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
• American girls are as clever in concealing their parents, as English women are at concealing their past.
• I am told that pork-packing is the most lucrative profession in America, after politics.
• As bald as a ministerial statement in the House of Commons.
• The way of paradoxes is the way of truth.
• To get back one’s youth, one merely to repeat one’s follies.
• He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.
• Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
• Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed.
• Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.
• As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.
• The people who love only once in their life are really the shallow people.
• Faithfulness is simply a confession of failure.
• Only the sacred things are worth touching.
• When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself, and one always end by deceiving others. That is what the world calls romance.
• Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined oneself in the poetry of life is a honor (This is, according to me, is the best quote from Wilde and one that needs a lot of experience to understand).
• Experience was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.
• The real drawback to marriage is that it makes one unselfish.
• As for spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.
• When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy.
• It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.
• Married life is merely a habit, a bad habit.