Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.

You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.

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

If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

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

It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself, with yourrose-red youth and your rose-white boyhood, you have had passions that have made you afraid, thoughts that have filled you with terror, day-dreams and sleeping dreams whose mere memory might stain your cheek with shame.