Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.
It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces .
Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed.
When asked what he thought of sports, Oscar Wilde replied, "I approve of any activity that requires the wearing of special clothing.
It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)