Quotes About Perspective

LORD ILLINGWORTH. As George Harford I had everything I wanted. Now I have merely everything that other people want, which isn't nearly so pleasant.

I talk so trivially about life because I think that life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that have influenced us.

A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice.

I give the truths of tomorrow. I prefer the mistakes of today, she answered.

Ah! I have talked quite enough for today, said Lord Henry, smiling. All I want now is to look at life. You may come and look at it with me, if you care to.

Jemanden zu beeinflussen bedeutet, ihm eine fremde Seele zu geben.

And they are unjust to us often, for when they find life bitter they blame us for it, and when they find it sweet we do not taste its sweetness with them.

Yet the roses are not less lovely for all that.

It is only about things that do not interest one, that one can give a really unbiassed opinion; and this is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless.

Nowadays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love. Sibyl Vane seemed to him to be absurdly melodramatic. Her tears and sobs annoyed him.

Every good story-teller nowadays starts with the end, and then goes on to the beginning, and concludes with the middle...

It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter, who on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

The fact is that we look back on the ages entirely through the medium of Art, and Art, very fortunately, has never once told us the truth.

He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is the reason that I don't believe anything he has told me.

Debe la alegría vestirse con lo que fabrico el Dolor?

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

These days man knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.

In life there is really no great or small thing. All things are of equal value and of equal size.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing.