“All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does, and that is his.”

“Every woman becomes their mother. That's their tragedy. And no man becomes his. That's his tragedy.”

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.”

“Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.”

“The trouble with women is, that when they grow up, they turn into their mothers. The trouble with men is, that they don’t.”

“By the way, Dorian, he (Lord Henry) said, after a pause, what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose - how does the quotation run? - his own soul? ”

“Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”