Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast.

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame.

Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.