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Culture and corruption, echoed Dorian. I have known something of both. It seems terrible to me now that they should ever be found together.

And how delightful other people's emotions were!-much more delightful than their ideas, it seemed to him. One's own soul, and the passions of one's friends-those were the fascinating things in life.

What on earth you are serious about I haven't got the remotest idea.  About everything, I should fancy.  You have such an absolutely trivial nature.

I cannot repeat an emotion. No one can, except sentimentalists.

Really the answers I get are idiotic. The entire correspondence of you and Robbie with me should be published. The best title would be Letters from Two Idiots to a Lunatic, I should fancy.

Colonel. Can she read and write?   Peter. Ay, that she can, sir. Colonel. Then she is a dangerous woman.

He was prisoned in thought. Memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away.

Why should he watch the hideous corruption of his soul?

She has the fascinating tyranny of youth, and the astonishing courage of innocence. 

For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn.

I remember having read somewhere, in some strange book, that when the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

I shall write it in my diary to-night What? That a burnt child loves the fire

Who had a large wardrobe of Humour's cast-off clothes

Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose the image of his sin.

I don't desire to change anything in England except the weather

Meredith is a prose Browning. So is Browning.

Detesto todos los argumentos! Son siempre vulgares, y a menudo convincentes.

A misanthrope I can understand—a womanthrope, never!

What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! gossip is charming! History is merely gossip, but scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

That awful thing, a woman's memory!

To the philosopher women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals.

I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand

He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice.

In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.