I adore Oscar Wilde. I have only read his children's stories(, my favorite being The Sad Prince), and The Picture of Dorian Gray I have just recently finished. Talk about a great book! My favorite character in Dorian Gray was by far Lord Henry, especially in terms of speaking. This man always has something genius, passionate and angled to say, and be it thoughtful advice or a confident if not controversial lecture upon the sulky 17-year-old pretty boy that is Dorian, what Lord Henry says is usually true by some abstract standards.
Anyways, here are some beauty-related pearls of wisdom from the brilliant and vexed mind of Lord Henry, ultimately Oscar Wilde. Maybe we'll hear from his friends, too.
"Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons. It always means they have a history." -Lord Henry
"We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful." -Lord Henry
"Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich."- Lord Henry
"Yellow satin could console one for all the miseries of life." -Dorian Gray
'Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment universal, and Dandyism, which, in its own way, is an attempt to assert the absolute modernity of beauty...' -Narrative
"Moderation is a fatal thing."- Lady Narborough
"It is the feet of clay that make the gold of the image precious."- Lord Henry
"[One] atones for being occasionally somewhat over-dressed, by being always absolutely over-educated."- Lord Henry
What are your favorite book quotes, fashion-related or not?
Kisses
Alexzandra
