I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

What a fuss people make about fidelity!" exclaimed Lord Henry. "Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say.

Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Love! What is love? It's nothing. It's just a word. It doesn't exist. Only pleasure is important.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.