What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. We all have clouds above us but some see their silver linings. We all face difficulties but some of us are grateful that they aren't worse.

To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

The story of mankind began in a garden and ended in revelations.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.