Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them. |
To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. |
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us. |
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. |
You can never be overdressed or overeducated. |
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. The Happy Prince and Other Stories |
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or their car, but because they sing a song only you can hear. |
Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. |
To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. |
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. |