She...can talk brillantly upon any subject provided she knows nothing about it.

There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own.

History is merely gossip

Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.

Conscience makes egotists of us all.

Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer.