Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions." "I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.

I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable.

They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about.

The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

This wallpaper is dreadful, one of us will have to go.