To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

The secret to life is to enjoy the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived.

And now, I am dying beyond my means. (Said while sipping champagne on his deathbed.)

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.