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.

One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing.

Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living.

Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.