You would sacrifice anybody, Harry, for the sake of an epigram.
– Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Chapter 18. Dorian is not generally critical of Lord Henry, but on this occasion he is. He seems to be growing increasingly tired of Henry’s cynicism and is even recovering his sense of morality that he lost. Haunted by Basil’s murder and troubled by the accidental killing of a man while shooting hares, Dorian’s feelings of panic and terror are growing.