Jemanden zu beeinflussen bedeutet, ihm eine fremde Seele zu... - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

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

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

"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."

"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."