You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to e... - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

"Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."

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

"So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape (...)"

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