“If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.”

“And when you are away, Gerald...with...her - oh, think of me sometimes. Don't forget me.”

“I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.”

“What is done is done. What is past is past.""You call yesterday the past?""What has the actual lapse of time got to do with it? It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”

“In art, don't you see, there is no first person.”

“Because you have the most marvellous youth, and youth is the one thing worth having." "I don't feel that, Lord Henry." "No, you don't feel it now. Some day, when you are old and wrinkled and ugly, when thought has seared your forehead with its lines, and passion branded your lips with its hideous fires, you will feel it, you will feel it terribly. Now, wherever you go, you charm the world.”