A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them.

Men become old, but they never become good.

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.

They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

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

Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building.