Even things that are true can be proved. - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."

"What fire does not destroy, it hardens"

"You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one."

"It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."