"I always say beauty is only sin deep."
~
Reginald
by
Saki
You can't expect the fatted calf to share the enthusiasm of the angels over the prodigal's return.
~
Reginald
by
Saki
The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.
~
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
by
Oscar Wilde
"No, I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing."
~
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
by
Oscar Wilde
Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.
~
Lord Arthur Saviles Crime
by
Oscar Wilde
"I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy."
~
The Great Gatsby
by
F. Scott Fitzgerald
"I like people to have a little nonsense about them."
~
Anne of the Island
by
Lucy Maud Montgomery
"I wouldn't want to marry anybody who was wicked, but I think I'd like it if he
could be wicked and
wouldn't. "
~
Anne of the Island
by
Lucy Maud Montgomery
"I don't like irony," she said; "it indicates a small soul."
~
The Land That Time Forgot
by
Edgar Rice Burroughs
"I make no manner of doubt that you threw a very diamond of truth at me, though you see it hit me so directly in the face that it wasn't exactly appreciated, at first."
~
Uncle Tom's Cabin
by
Harriet Beecher Stowe