Any place you love is the world to you.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

I analyzed you, though you did not adore me.

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

To be popular one must be a mediocrity." "Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all." "It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.