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!

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

Romantic literature is in effect imaginative lying.

Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys.

The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.