You can never be overdressed or overeducated.

To know anything about oneself one must know all about others.

To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.

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 unread is always better than the unreadable.

A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry

I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves.