These days man knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.
Describe us as a sex," was her challenge. Sphinxes without secrets.
My own personality has become a burden to me. I want to escape, to go away, to forget.
Dorian is far too wise not to do foolish things now and then.
The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.
He was like a common gardener walking with a rose.
Besides, nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
Threads snap. You would lose your way in the labyrinth.
There seemed to him to be something tragic in a friendship so coloured by romance.
I have no terror of death. It is the coming of death that terrifies me. Its monstrous wings seem to wheel in the leaden air around me.
He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is the reason that I don't believe anything he has told me.
Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating.
I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations.
A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.
Mere words.. Was there anything so real as words?
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
In every pleasure, cruelty has its place.
Oh! Anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often.
Yes; she is a peacock in everything but beauty
Had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.
When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
Ah! this morning! You have lived since then.
You never say a moral thing, and you never do a wrong thing.