To define is to limit. - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

"Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."

"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."

"The only horrible thing in the world is ennui."

"What fire does not destroy, it hardens"