Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

I have no objection to anyone’s sex life as long as they don’t practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

Sins of the flesh are nothing. Sins of the soul are shameful.

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else, if she is plain.

The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.

All the power is with the sex that wears the beard