If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream.

Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.

How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!

How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!