When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us.

Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic."

for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality."

through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself,

I love acting. It is so much more real than life.

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

his guardians, who were extremely old-fashioned people and did not realize that we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities;

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"So I have murdered Sibyl Vane,"