The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

"Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one,"

Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies."

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

"Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."

Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say."

only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

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

Women try their luck; men risk theirs."