No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life

I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand.

Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

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.