There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked... - 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."

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

"I am too fond of reading books to care to write them."

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

"You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one."