Lord Henry Wotton

"There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel nobody else has a right to blame us."

"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious."

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

"Ah! realize your youth while you have it!"

"There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love."

"My dear boy, the truth isn't quite so simple."

"Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude."

"I take no credit to myself for my musical taste."

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

"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral."

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

"I can resist everything except temptation."

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

"What is past is of no consequence. The present is what matters."

"The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young."

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving oneself."

"Youth is the only thing worth having."

"A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure."

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects."

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

"Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes."

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

"I am afraid that I cannot help you there. You would require being born again."

"One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."

"The very essence of romance is uncertainty."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating: people who know absolutely everything and people who know absolutely nothing."