I am too fond of reading books to care to write them. - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."

"She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain."

"Even things that are true can be proved."

"To define is to limit."

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."