“The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.”

“I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”

“I know. In fact, I am never wrong.”

“Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.""I hate them for it," cried Hallward. "An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray.”

“I was wrong. God's law is only Love.”

“I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes.”

“Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.”