FROM "THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GREY" :

"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?" (Ch. 6, Lord Henry.)

"It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But . . . it is better to be good than to be ugly." (Ch. 17, Lord Henry to the Duchess of Monmouth.)

"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable." (Ch. 19, Lord Henry to Dorian.)

"An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them."
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Ch. 1
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"Some day you will look at your friend, and he will seem to you to be a little out of drawing, or you won't like his tone of colour, or something."
- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray Ch. 1

"One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. "

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life. "

"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."