“Like all good reputations... every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”

“Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”

“To be popular one must be a mediocrity.”

“To be popular one must be a mediocrity.""Not with Women," said the duchess, shaking her head; "and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.""It seems to me that we never do anything else," murmered Dorian.”

“One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.”

“You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one.”

“MRS ALLONBY Have you tried a good reputation?LORD ILLINGWORTH It is one of the many annoyances to which I have never been subjected.”