The books that the world calls immoral are books that show t... - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Even things that are true can be proved."

"It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."

"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."

"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."

"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."