God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

Art persists, it timelessly continues.

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.

It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves.

Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.