Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it.

Youth is the only thing worth having.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.