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

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book.Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

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

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."

"So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape (...)"