Jack Smith > Jack's Quotes

“But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. 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.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I am happy in my prison of passion”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray