“The only horrible thing in the world is ennui.”

“After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.”

“Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.”

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

“I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!”

“memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away”

“How sad it is!" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. "How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June… . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that—for that—I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!”