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

"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."

"I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."

"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."

"There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."