Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear.

Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.

People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets; and all my poets look exactly like pianists.

The great events of the world take place in the Brain. It is in the Brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.

A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be.  That is his punishment.  Those who want a mask have to wear it.

Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices." "The

My dear fellow, it isn't easy to be anything nowadays. 

All imitation in morals and in life is wrong.  Through the streets of Jerusalem at the present day crawls one who is mad and carries a wooden cross on his shoulders.  He is a symbol of the lives that are marred by imitation. 

Ideals are dangerous things.  Realities are better.  They wound

I am quite content with philosophic contemplation. But, as the nineteenth century has gone bankrupt through an over-expenditure of sympathy, I would suggest that we should appeal to science to put us straight. The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray, and the advantage of science is that it is not emotional.

The whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.

You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can't you?" He shook his head. "To-night she is Imogen," he answered, "and to-morrow night she will be Juliet." "When is she Sibyl Vane?" "Never." "I congratulate you.