We can have in life but one great experience at best, and th... - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

"There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him."

"A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her."

"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."