"He is not the man I’m looking for," he exclaimed, "and I want no man’s money. I want a man’s life. The man whose life I want must be nearly forty by now. This one is little more than a boy. Thank God, I have not got his blood upon my hands."
– Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 16. James Vane is responding to a woman who has encouraged him to kill and rob Dorian. James wants justice for his sister Sibyl who committed suicide after being cruelly tossed aside by Dorian 18 years ago. But he believes that Dorian, who hasn’t aged in that time, cannot be that man and he doesn’t wish to kill someone he ironically thinks is innocent.