The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth.

Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.

I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

The moon in her chariot of pearl

Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it

Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.