My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important.

In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Spontaneity is a meticulously prepared art

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

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)