'every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.' -Picture of Dorian Gray

Of course you would have treated her kindly. One can always be kind to people about whom he cares nothing. -Picture of Dorian Gray

It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China? -Dracula