You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the si... - Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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

"It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."

"The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

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

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