“What fire does not destroy, it hardens”

“You told me you had destroyed it." "I was wrong. It has destroyed me.”

“I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it.”

“The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.”

“By the way, Dorian, he (Lord Henry) said, after a pause, what does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose - how does the quotation run? - his own soul? ”

“Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.”

“Morality does not help me. 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. It is well to have learned that.”