Lord Henry.

The most wonderful character!
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. He is delightful and delights in paradoxes. He also (that is Wilde) has a amazing ability to turn things that we know are wrong quite right and lovely in the process.

"He is always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the theif of time"

"To lose one parent may be regarded as misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness"
(This is not said by Lord Henry or in Picture of Dorian Gray but is by Oscar Wilde)

"Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers! My elder brother wont die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else"

"In art, as in politics, les grandpéres ont toujours tort."

"It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for."

"I fancy the true explanation is this. It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give us an impression of sheer brute force, and we revolt against that. Sometimes, however, tragedy that pocesses artistic elements of beauty crosses our lives. If these elements of beauty are real, the whole thing simply appeals to our dramatic effect. Suddenly we find we are no longer the actors, but the spectators of the play. Or rather we are both. We watch ourselves, and the mere wonder of the spectacle enthralls us."

Read Picture of Dorian Gray. It is wonderful.