“I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”

“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”

“If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.”

“you met me, flattered me, and taught me to be vain of my good looks. One day you introduced me to a friend of yours, who explained to me the wonder of youth, and you finished a portrait of me that revealed to me the wonder of beauty. In a mad moment that, even now, I don't know whether I regret or not, I made a wish, perhaps you would call it a prayer… .”

“How extraordinary! I thought you would never care for anything but your art.”“He is all my art to me now.”

“They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about. ”

“You silly Arthur! If you knew anything about...anything, which you don't, you would know that I adore you. Everyone in London knows it except you. It is a public scandal the way I adore you. I have been going about for the last six months telling the whole of society that I adore you. I wonder you consent to have anything to say to me. I have no character left at all. At least, I feel so happy that I am quite sure I have no character left at all.”