Live the wonderful life that is in you.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.

Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.

Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.