The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

— You don't like your country, then?
— I live in it.

The life that was to make his soul would mar his body.

And Lord Henry struck a light on a dainty silver case, and began to smoke a cigarette with a self-conscious and satisfied air, as if he had summed up the world in a phrase.

You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never has the courage to commit.

She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

"Still, the East End is a very important problem."
"Quite so. It is the problem of slavery, and we try to solve it by amusing the slaves."

Talking to him was like playing upon an exquisite violin. He answered to every touch and thrill of the bow....

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

If one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream—I believe that the world would gain... a fresh impulse of joy...

I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else.

How barren all intellectual speculation is when separated from action and experiment.

Of the asceticism that deadens the senses, as of the vulgar profligacy that dulls them, it was to know nothing.

To become the spectator of one's own life, as Harry says, is to escape the suffering of life.

One's own life—that is the important thing.