He would seek to dominate him--had already, indeed, half done so. He would make that wonderful spirit his own. There was something fascinating in this son of love and death.

on succeeding some months later to the title, had set himself to the serious study of the great aristocratic art of doing absolutely nothing.

A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.

"An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

"Well, as soon as you are dry, you shall be varnished, and framed, and sent home. Then you can do what you like with yourself."

Even those that are born in England become foreigners after a time, don't they?

a lady of admirable good-nature and good temper, much liked by every one who knew her, and of those ample architectural proportions that in women who are not duchesses are described by contemporary historians as stoutness.

I have always been my own master; had at least always been so, till I met Dorian Gray.

Certainly few people had ever interested him so much as Dorian Gray, and yet the lad's mad adoration of some one else caused him not the slightest pang of annoyance or jealousy. He was pleased by it. It made him a more interesting study.