Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America.

Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

Never buy anything simply because it is expensive.

I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered.

There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses.