What fire does not destroy, it hardens - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else."

"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."

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

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