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

"But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to."

"Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."

"When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."

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

"You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one."