If you want to mar a nature, you have merely to reform it.

As for marriage, of course that would be silly, but there are other and more interesting bonds between men and women.
I will certainly encourage them.

They have the charm of being fashionable.

But here is Dorian himself.

He will tell you more than I can." "My dear Harry, my dear Basil, you must both congratulate me!" said the lad, throwing off his evening cape with its satin-lined wings and shaking each of his friends by the hand in turn.