— Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything.
— ...and when they grow older they know it.
The only way to avoid temptation is to yield to it.
— Lord Henry, I am not at all surprised that the world says that you are extremely wicked.
— But what world says that?... It can only be the next world.
Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.
"I know what pleasure is," cried Dorian Gray. "It is to adore some one."
"That is certainly better than being adored," he answered, toying with some fruits. "Being adored is a nuisance. Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us to do something for them."
There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.
You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love.
"Being adored is a nuisance. Women treat us just as humanity treats its gods. They worship us, and are always bothering us to do something for them."
"I should have said that whatever they ask for they had first given to us," murmured the lad gravely. "They create love in our natures. They have a right to demand it back."
Youth is the one thing worth having.... It makes princes of those who have it.
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.