Crime belongs exclusively to the lower orders.

I don't blame them in the smallest degree.

I should fancy that crime was to them what art is to us, simply a method of procuring extraordinary sensations." "A method of procuring sensations?
Do you think, then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again?
Don't tell me that." "Oh! anything becomes a pleasure if one does it too often," cried Lord Henry, laughing.

"That is one of the most important secrets of life.
I should fancy, however, that murder is always a mistake.

One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.