And some beautiful words from "The Picture of Dorian Gray"

There is always something ridiculous about the emotion of people one has ceased to love.

Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know.

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

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

My dear boy, no woman is a genius. Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say but they say it charmingly. Women represent the triumph of matter overmind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect- simply a confession of failure.

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.


And I'm only halfway through the book.