A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.

The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations.

The great events of the world take place in the brain.

To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.

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)