The Picture of Dorian Gray

"There's only one way to get rid of temptation, and that's to yield to it."

"I'm analyzing women at present. The subject is less difficult than I was led to believe. Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals."

"I like persons better than principles and persons with no principles better than anything at all."

"I apologize for the intelligence of my remarks, Sir Thomas, I'd forgotten that you were a member of Parliament."

"If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable."