When people talk to me about the weather, I always feel they mean something else.

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

A mask tells us more than a face.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age.

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die.