Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope

Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.

It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

Common sense is the enemy of Romance :P:P

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.