My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again? Don't tell me that." says Dorian. "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," says Lord Henry

When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable.

I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated.

The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Imitation is the homage mediocrity pays to greatness.