ドリアン・グレイの肖像

She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was always in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

‘I trust you.’ — ‘I wish I could trust myself’

He won’t like you better for keeping your promises. He always breaks his own.

What a fuss people make about fidelity!

Sin is the only colorelement left in modern life.

Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us.

If it was I who were to be always young, and the picture that were to grow old!

The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation. He had never felt it before.

The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.