"You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid"
"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."
"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
"The only horrible thing in the world is ennui."
"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."