Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value o... - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"To define is to limit."

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

"I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."

"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."

"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror."