Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable

I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun.

I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity.