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

"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

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

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

"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."