"I have been right, Basil, haven’t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare’s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had ..."
- Oscar Wilde
"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."
"Inteligence lives longer than beauty."
"The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as ..."
"The only people to whose opinions I listen now with any respect are people much younger than myself. They seem in front of me. Life has revealed to them her latest wonder."
"It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words."
"But in reality, with Mr. Ellison there is an essence of probity about him; unlike Dorian Grey, him and his hidden portrait are both wonderful. When he speaks there is a certain intonation he gets that..."
- Avra Amar Filion
"I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous."
"Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope."
"because to influence a person is to give one's own soul."