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By Oscar Wilde

The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colors.

He played with the idea, and grew wistful; tossed it into the air and transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox.

My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect -- simply a confession of failures.

The moment was lost in vulgar details.

Dorian Gray had been poisoned by a book.

A horrible sense of sickness came over him. He felt as if his heart was beating itself to death in some empty hollow.

Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity.

Romance lives by repetition, converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.