I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

How does one cure the soul? Through the senses

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Only the shallow know themselves.

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.