I don't think I am heartless. Do you?' 'You have done too many foolish things during the last fortnight to be entitled to give yourself that name, Dorian,' answered Lord Henry with his sweet melancholy smile.

We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces

When they entered they found, hanging upon the wall, a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of visage. It was not till they had examined the rings that they recognised who it was.

A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on.

Let those who have not walked as we have done, In the red fire of passion, those whose lives Are dull and colourless, in a word let those, If any such there be, who have not loved, Cast stones against you

If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.

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

Do you know I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

I'm really very sorry, but it is not my fault. People are so annoying. All my pianists look exactly like poets, and all my poets look exactly like pianists

In matters of great importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes

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