The Picture of Dorian Gray

crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations."

epigram."

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality."

"one can survive everything nowadays except that. Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.

Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders.

Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

I like the duchess very much, but I don't love her." "And the duchess loves you very much, but she likes you less, so you are excellently matched."