"You are more to me than any of them has any idea; you are the atmosphere of beauty through which I see life; you are the incarnation of all lovely things...I think of you day and night. ~ Letter to Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas"
"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
"You can never be overdressed or overeducated."
"Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination."
"Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works."
"Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."