Life is too important to be taken seriously. |
Life is too important to be taken seriously. |
Life isn't weird: it's just the people in it. |
Life would be dull without them. |
Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments. |
Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic |
Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say. |
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose. |
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac. |
London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy. |
Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. |
Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not. |
LORD ILLINGWORTH: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. / MRS. ALLONBY: It ends with Revelations. |
Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two. |
Love is born with the pleasure of looking at each other, it is fed with the necessity of seeing each other, it is concluded with the impossibility of separation |