Posted By: Suzanne (InLoveWithUniverse ...) on 'Quotes' Title: Dorian Gray Date: Fri Dec 8 15:51:10 1995 It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at all the successful men in any of the learnd professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they do not think. The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. As for believing things, I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incerdible. I made a great difference between people. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. The worst thing of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic. Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to. - Lord Henry Wotton I have given away my whole soul to some one who treats it as it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day. - Basil Hallward, the painter The Renaissance knew of strange manners of poisoning - poisoning by a helmet and a lighted torch, by an embroidered glove and a jewelled fan, by a gilded pomander and by an amber chain. Dorian Gray was poisoned by a book. In this country, it is enough for a man to have distinction and brains for every common tongue to wag against him. - Dorian Gray If life hands you a lemon, squeeze it and make lemonade. * SUE * *** I am the one who walks with the tender and growing night... ***