I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.

There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance.

There is nothing that art cannot express.

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.