ドリアン・グレイの肖像

Faithlessness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the intellectual life,—simply a confession of failure.

people who only love once in their lives are really shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or the lack of imagination.

You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love.

the search for beauty is the poisonous secret of life

I used to look at every one who passed me, and wonder with a mad curiosity what sort of lives they led. Some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror. There was an exquisite poison in the air. I had a passion for sensations.

I felt that this gray, monstrous London of ours, with its myriads of people, its splendid sinners, and its sordid sins, as you once said, must have something in store for me.

As for conversation, there are only five women in London worth talking to, and two of these can’t be admitted into decent society.

no woman is a genius: women are a decorative sex.

I don’t think I am likely to marry, Harry. I am too much in love.

You have never been to any of my parties, have you, Mr. Gray? You must come. I can’t afford orchids, but I spare no expense in foreigners.