The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

"Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."

"But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality."

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

"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."