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"Love is a more wonderful thing than Art."
     – Basil Hallward to Dorian Gray, from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (69)

"Love is more than money."
     – Sibyl Vane to her mother, from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (49)

"When one is in love, one always begins deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls romance."
     – Lord Henry to Dorian Gray, from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (42)

"My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect--simply a confession of failure. Faithfulness! I must analyze it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."
     – Lord Henry to Dorian Gray, from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (40)

"What a fuss people make about fidelity! Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say."
     – Lord Henry to Basil and Dorian, from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (24)

"Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies."
     – Lord Henry to Basil Hallward, from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde (10)

"She that has no one to love or trust has little to hope."
     – Nekayah to Imlac, from The History of Rasselas: Prince of Abissinia, by Samuel Johnson