The Picture of Dorian Gray

a dowdy dull girl, with one of those characteristic British faces that, once seen, are never remembered;

"Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."

Having locked the door behind him, he crept quietly downstairs.

Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art.

we are in the native land of the hypocrite."

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

The thing has to be done. Face it, and do it."