Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired... - 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."

"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 (...)"

"The only horrible thing in the world is ennui."

"You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art. You have thrown it all away. You are shallow and stupid"

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