Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired... - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

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

"What fire does not destroy, it hardens"

"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."

"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 (...)"