Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207