Quotes About Contrast

He was like a common gardener walking with a rose.

I adore simple pleasures," said Lord Henry. "They are the last refuge of the complex. But I don't like scenes, except on the stage.

He is some brainless beautiful creature who should be always here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in summer when we want something to chill our intelligence.

Shall Joy wear what Grief has fashioned?

Marriage is hardly a thing that one can do now and then, Harry. Except in America, rejoined Lord Henry, languidly.

The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them.  They are so far away from us that only the poet can understand them.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating -- people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

I felt that this grey, monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its sordid sinners and its splendid sins

Detrás de toda hermosura hay algo trágico

She laughed again. Her teeth showed like white seeds in a scarlet fruit.

Sin is the only color- element left in modern life.

El pecado es el único elemento colorido que queda en la vida moderna

One hardly knew at times whether one was reading the spiritual ecstasies of some mediaeval saint or the morbid confessions of a modern sinner. It was a poisonous book.

Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic. Worlds

always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones.

Her hair clustered around her face like dark leaves round a pale rose.

The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it. Women

he replied, touching the thin stem of his glass with his pale, fine-pointed fingers. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with

Here a young girl in high heels wears a bikini, a blue bikini, with blonde hair. Standing next to her is a girl as young as Rosalie, in a mini-skirt and a strap over her little red nipples

All around us, insurance companies with patriotic names are housed in gigantic towers of white plaster. Here prestigious law firms perform their business for rich people who live next to jaded movie stars

Darkness makes any woman fair.

And yet, no joy is ever unalloyed, and worry worms its way into delight

And warns us to use life's beauty as it blooms. The thorn is spurned when the rose has dropped.

in flammam flammas, in mare fundis aquas