The only horrible thing in the world is ennui. - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"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."

"We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."

"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."

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

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."