“I am the only person I would like to know thoroughly”

“Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works.”

“When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins.”

“I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else.”

“Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.”

“Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about.”

“If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person”