Lord Henry Wotton Best Quotes & Sayings

Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs; — Oscar Wilde

The Chavez-Obama pictures will join a postmodern photo array that includes Donald Rumsfeld gifting Saddam Hussein with spurs from President Reagan. — Christine Pelosi

Being a mother must be the saddest yet the most hopeful thing in the world, falling into a love that, once started, would never end. — Yiyun Li

You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

To define is to limit. — Oscar Wilde

I am less to you than your ivory Hermes or your silver Faun. You will like them always. How long will you like me? Till I have my first wrinkle, I suppose. I know, now, that when one loses one's good looks, whatever they may be, one loses everything. Your picture has taught me that. Lord Henry Wotton is perfectly right. Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself. — Oscar Wilde

I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel. — Oscar Wilde

Prince Achilles! Aristos Achaion! As — Madeline Miller

If only life were like a Jules Verne novel, thinks Marie-Laure, and you could page ahead when you most needed to, and learn what would happen. — Anthony Doerr

The last thing I wanted was to be another star player in their nightmare. — Adele Levine

At half-past twelve next day Lord Henry Wotton strolled from Curzon Street over to the Albany to call on his uncle, Lord Fermor, a genial if somewhat rough-mannered old bachelor, whom the outside world called selfish because it derived no particular benefit from him, but who was considered generous by Society as he fed the people who amused him. — Oscar Wilde

Conscience is just a polite word for cowardice. No civilised man regrets a pleasure. — Lord Henry Wotton

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different. — Lord Henry Wotton

You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. — Oscar Wilde