Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother wo... - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to."

"When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy."

"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."

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

"Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."